User:Acascone

About Me

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

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

Projects

Hack Pittsburgh

• Glassblock GE-35 LED Project
• Door RFID Reader

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