User:Acascone

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About Me

Interested in robots, teaching, Ultimate frisbee, and craft beer.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/ajc317

Projects

Hack Pittsburgh

Personal

  • Home power monitoring
  • Roomba Robot with ROS

Class/Presentation/Project Ideas

  • Coding Class
    • Intro to C (proper programming, gcc, eclipse, debugging)
    • Embedded Programming (doing more with less, arduino and beyond)
  • Motor Control
    • Standard Servo
    • Continuos Servo, and hacking
    • Brushed DC
    • Stepper
    • Brushless DC
    • Speed Control
    • Position Control
    • Torque Control
    • Robotics and nonrobotics applications, I need help with the nonrobotics applications
      • simple wall following robot with arduino brain
      • stepper motor driver for eggbot, drawbot
      • brushless driver for model aircraft, rc car...
      • animatronics
      • "art"
  • Microcontrollers (which one to use and why)
    • AVR, PIC, Parallax
    • 8bit, 32 bit
    • C, Basic, Asm
  • Linux Night Topics
    • Installation
      • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS unless 12.10 is much better.
      • nautilus-open-terminal
      • Chrome
      • Flash
      • OpenOffice
      • cd,ls,pwd,cp,mv
    • Basic Usage
      • Burn CDs
      • Folder structure
      • Scripting
      • File I/O
      • Serial io
      • wget,curl,find
      • Email
    • Text Manipulation
      • vi vs emacs
      • grep,sed,awk
      • Image Editing Tricks
      • image magic
      • gimp
    • SSH and the miracles thereof
      • ssh
      • scp
      • rsh
      • rsync
    • Compiling
      • gcc
      • mingw
      • cmake
      • scons
      • Git,svn
    • LAMP
      • Apache
      • PHP
      • phpmyadmin
      • Drupal