Schlagwort: Actuators

  • 10 most popular modules and sensors for the Arduino UNO all on one board

    10 most popular modules and sensors for the Arduino UNO all on one board

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    10 most popular modules and sensors for the Arduino UNO all on one board

    Arduino Team — December 1st, 2020

    Getting started with electronics and sensing the world around you is now easier than ever with the new all-in-one Arduino Sensor Kit from Arduino, in partnership with Seeed.   

    The 10 most popular modules and sensors for your Arduino UNO have been integrated onto a single board, providing plug-and-play convenience without the need for any soldering or wiring! Combining basic Grove sensors and actuators for the Arduino UNO, the kit contains a base shield featuring the following modules that can be connected either through the digital, analog, or I2C connectors:

    • An OLED screen
    • 4 digital modules (LED, button, buzzer and potentiometer)
    • 5 sensors (light, sound, air pressure, temperature, and accelerometer)

    Just plug the Arduino Sensor Kit into the Arduino UNO, then you’re ready to follow the Plug, Sketch & Play online lessons that make getting started a breeze.

    The kit is equipped with 16 Grove connectors, which when placed on the board, offer functionality to the various pins. With seven digital connections, four analog connections, four I2C connections, and a UART connection, the base shield can be easily mounted onto an Arduino UNO board and programmed through the Arduino IDE. 

    Now available from the Arduino Store, the Arduino Sensor Kit comes as a standalone kit for only €23.00 / US$23.00, or can be purchased with the Arduino UNO Rev3 board as a great value bundle for €38.70 / US$38.70. For more details, check out our website here.

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  • Prototype room-scale, shape-changing interfaces with LiftTiles

    Prototype room-scale, shape-changing interfaces with LiftTiles

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    Prototype room-scale, shape-changing interfaces with LiftTiles

    Arduino Team — January 27th, 2020

    Shape-shifting interfaces, which could be deployed to create dynamic furniture, structures or VR environments, have great potential; however, creating them is often quite difficult. To simplify things, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have developed “LiftTiles,” modular blocks that raise to the desired height (between 15 and 150 centimeters) via air pressure and then collapse under spring force when needed.

    Each pneumatic tile costs under $10 USD, weighs only 10kg each, and supports up to 10kg of weight. To demonstrate their design, the team used solenoid valves to inflate blocks and servo motors to open release valves that allow the blocks deflate and compress. 

    The system is based on an Arduino Mega board, along with an SR300 depth camera to measure the height of each section and client software running on a control computer. 

    More details can be found in the project’s research paper.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LHeTkOMR84?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

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  • Prototype room-scale, shape-changing interfaces with LiftTiles

    Prototype room-scale, shape-changing interfaces with LiftTiles

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    Prototype room-scale, shape-changing interfaces with LiftTiles

    Arduino Team — January 27th, 2020

    Shape-shifting interfaces, which could be deployed to create dynamic furniture, structures or VR environments, have great potential; however, creating them is often quite difficult. To simplify things, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have developed “LiftTiles,” modular blocks that raise to the desired height (between 15 and 150 centimeters) via air pressure and then collapse under spring force when needed.

    Each pneumatic tile costs under $10 USD, weighs only 10kg each, and supports up to 10kg of weight. To demonstrate their design, the team used solenoid valves to inflate blocks and servo motors to open release valves that allow the blocks deflate and compress. 

    The system is based on an Arduino Mega board, along with an SR300 depth camera to measure the height of each section and client software running on a control computer. 

    More details can be found in the project’s research paper.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LHeTkOMR84?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

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  • UCSD engineers developed electrically-controlled soft robot actuators

    UCSD engineers developed electrically-controlled soft robot actuators

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    UCSD engineers developed electrically-controlled soft robot actuators

    Arduino Team — October 12th, 2019

    Engineers at the University of California San Diego have come up with a way to build soft robots that are compact, portable and multifunctional without the requirement for compressed air. 

    Instead, they’re using a system of tubular actuators made out of heat-sensitive liquid crystal elastomer sheets. Heating elements are placed between two layers of elastomer, which is then rolled up into a cylinder, allowing the tubular digit to bend and contract.

    With this novel method, they’ve been able to build a three-jaw gripper, as well as a robot that walks independently with four legs under Arduino control. While the grippers are slow at this point, taking 30 seconds to bend and minutes to return to their original position, the eventual goal is to have them react at the speed of human muscles.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikD8oywuYBg?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

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