Viraj Padte from Oklahoma has been working on building a JetsonBot based on the articles posted on JetsonHacks. Background Viraj has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. Viraj has an interesting motivation for building a JetsonBot. Viraj states, “I choose to make the JetsonBot in order to learn Read more …
Jared Langbart from Columbia, Missouri has been working on building a JetsonBot based on the articles posted on JetsonHacks. Background Jared has a degree in Biotechnology and enjoys his work at a local hospital. Despite not having any formal computer or engineering training, Jared decided to build a JetsonBot to Read more …
The ability to play sound on a robotic platform provides an interesting dimension of interactivity. Looky here: Installation The addition of sound to a robot provides a wide variety of possibilities to expand the level of interactivity of the device. Fortunately this is easy to add to the JetsonBot. The Read more …
It is simple to perform a battery upgrade of the Create 2 battery on the JetsonBot. Looky here: Battery Discussion To extend the operating time of the iRobot Create 2 base, a battery with larger capacity may be added. iRobot makes the iRobot Roomba XLife Extended Life Battery which is Read more …
So far for networking the JetsonBot we’ve been relying on an existing wireless network for communication between the JetsonBot and the Robot Operating Center (ROC). However, there are times when it would be nice to have the JetsonBot and the ROC have their own separate network and not have to Read more …
An area of great improvement in the mobile device field over the last several years has been speech recognition. In part, this is due to advances in speech recognition algorithms, but it has also been bolstered by increase in mobile device computing power. The JetsonBot leverages the advances to include Read more …
The JetsonBot has companion software called the Robot Operating Center (ROC) which is run on a separate computer. The ROC can be run on a traditional laptop or desktop PC, but in this case it is being on another Jetson TK1. Looky here: Background The JetsonBot is a self contained Read more …
In the first prototype of the JetsonBot, there were two ‘duck’ antennas connected to an Intel 7260 Wireless/BT NIC card installed on the Jetson TK1, which were then taped to the top platform. In this article, we’ll go over swapping them out for panel antennas. Looky here: Background You have Read more …
The first autonomous demonstration of the JetsonBot shows autonomous following behavior. Looky here: Background In most science fiction settings, robots are autonomous. The most famous movie robots all operate on their own; and most people assume that robots ‘think’ when they see them executing actions. Most of the science fiction Read more …
Teleoperation can be thought of as operating a machine at a distance, similar to the term “remote control”. Let’s look at what it takes to control a JetsonBot with a Bluetooth game controller. Looky here: Background If you think back to the Gigantor example in the first part of this Read more …
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