🍅 FarmBot - open-source farming robot
FarmBot is an open source precision agriculture CNC farming project consisting of a Cartesian coordinate robot farming machine, software and documentation including a farming data repository. This interesting start-up focuses on bringing private automated farms to its clients. Robot uses machine learning algorithms for plants' analysis and takes actions depending on its results.
The FarmBot Genesis is able to plant over 30 different crops including potatoes, peas, squash, artichokes and chard in an area of 2.9 meters × 1.4 meters with a maximum plant height of 0.5 meters.
The Farmbot Genesis can perform almost all processes prior to harvesting including sowing, mechanical weed control and watering. It requires electricity, an internet connection and water supply which can be provided using off grid solutions including a water barrel to collect rain and a solar panel and battery to provide electricity.
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FarmBot is an open source precision agriculture CNC farming project consisting of a Cartesian coordinate robot farming machine, software and documentation including a farming data repository. This interesting start-up focuses on bringing private automated farms to its clients. Robot uses machine learning algorithms for plants' analysis and takes actions depending on its results.
The FarmBot Genesis is able to plant over 30 different crops including potatoes, peas, squash, artichokes and chard in an area of 2.9 meters × 1.4 meters with a maximum plant height of 0.5 meters.
The Farmbot Genesis can perform almost all processes prior to harvesting including sowing, mechanical weed control and watering. It requires electricity, an internet connection and water supply which can be provided using off grid solutions including a water barrel to collect rain and a solar panel and battery to provide electricity.
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🧠 How to Integrate Artificial Intelligence into Your Workflow
MathWorks’ Johanna Pingel talks about how engineers can use artificial intelligence to optimize their workflows
In engineering terms, the concept of AI actually spans four steps within a workflow: data preparation, modeling, simulation and testing, and deployment.
The first step, data preparation, is arguably the most important. Often, when deep-learning models don’t work the way they’re expected to, engineers focus on the second stage—fine-tuning their model, tweaking its parameters, and implementing multiple training iterations.
They fail to realize that to be effective, AI models need to be trained on robust, accurate data. Preprocessing the data and ensuring it’s correctly labeled helps ensure the model will be capable of understanding the data.
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MathWorks’ Johanna Pingel talks about how engineers can use artificial intelligence to optimize their workflows
In engineering terms, the concept of AI actually spans four steps within a workflow: data preparation, modeling, simulation and testing, and deployment.
The first step, data preparation, is arguably the most important. Often, when deep-learning models don’t work the way they’re expected to, engineers focus on the second stage—fine-tuning their model, tweaking its parameters, and implementing multiple training iterations.
They fail to realize that to be effective, AI models need to be trained on robust, accurate data. Preprocessing the data and ensuring it’s correctly labeled helps ensure the model will be capable of understanding the data.
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📰 Intel CEO says chip shortage will hit bottom in late 2021
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger predicted the shortage of semiconductors that’s hurting industries from automotive to consumer electronics will bottom out in the second half of this year before starting to improve.
“I don’t expect the chip industry is back to a healthy supply-demand situation until ’23,” he said in an interview. “For a variety of industries, I think it’s still getting worse before it gets better.”
Longer term, the chip industry is positioned for a period of growth, Gelsinger predicted. Over the next decade, the increasing uses for chips — including 5G phone systems, electric vehicles and expanded artificial intelligence — will drive strong demand, he said.
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Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger predicted the shortage of semiconductors that’s hurting industries from automotive to consumer electronics will bottom out in the second half of this year before starting to improve.
“I don’t expect the chip industry is back to a healthy supply-demand situation until ’23,” he said in an interview. “For a variety of industries, I think it’s still getting worse before it gets better.”
Longer term, the chip industry is positioned for a period of growth, Gelsinger predicted. Over the next decade, the increasing uses for chips — including 5G phone systems, electric vehicles and expanded artificial intelligence — will drive strong demand, he said.
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🫁 MakAir — open-source Covid-19 Ventilator
The world's first open-source ventilator tested on human patients. Mass-producible at a low cost (~2000€).
Makair ventilator is the world's first open-source ventilator tested with success on human patients with ongoing clinical trials in France.
This project provides all the parts required to build a good-enough ARDS ventilator from mass-produced components. We provide all the required mechanical parts, electronics designs & boards, and firmwares.
This ventilator can be 3D-printed and ran on an Arduino board, though we highly advise that you work with industrial processes as to mold medical-grade plastic parts and assemble the whole ventilator.
Features include:
▫️ Pressure controlled ventilation
▫️ Volume controlled ventilation
▫️ BiPap ventilation
▫️ 4 hours battery life
▫️ Medical-grade alarms
▫️ High flow turbine
▫️ Fault tolerant design
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The world's first open-source ventilator tested on human patients. Mass-producible at a low cost (~2000€).
Makair ventilator is the world's first open-source ventilator tested with success on human patients with ongoing clinical trials in France.
This project provides all the parts required to build a good-enough ARDS ventilator from mass-produced components. We provide all the required mechanical parts, electronics designs & boards, and firmwares.
This ventilator can be 3D-printed and ran on an Arduino board, though we highly advise that you work with industrial processes as to mold medical-grade plastic parts and assemble the whole ventilator.
Features include:
▫️ Pressure controlled ventilation
▫️ Volume controlled ventilation
▫️ BiPap ventilation
▫️ 4 hours battery life
▫️ Medical-grade alarms
▫️ High flow turbine
▫️ Fault tolerant design
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#projects #arduino
🔑 Adafruit Trinkey QT2040
A USB Key with the power of RP2040
Adafruit have taken Raspberry Pi’s RP2040, the same SoC found in the Raspberry Pi Pico, and placed it into something different. A USB key shaped device with no GPIO and limited connectivity. Trinkey QT2040 is designed for plug and play use and can be connected to any computer running any operating system.
Trinkey QT2040 is compatible with C / C++ and MicroPython, but to get the best from this board we really need to use CircuitPython. With CircuitPython we have an easy to use dialect of Python 3, a large selection of libraries ensuring we can pick up and connect a Stemma QT / Qwiic board and start hacking. CircuitPython is the ideal way to experience Trinkey QT2040.
The USB form factor means that Trinkey QT2040 can be connected to a computer which requires quick access to a hardware hacking platform. Need to hack some I2C components, Trinkey QT2040 will enable you to plug in and hack.
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A USB Key with the power of RP2040
Adafruit have taken Raspberry Pi’s RP2040, the same SoC found in the Raspberry Pi Pico, and placed it into something different. A USB key shaped device with no GPIO and limited connectivity. Trinkey QT2040 is designed for plug and play use and can be connected to any computer running any operating system.
Trinkey QT2040 is compatible with C / C++ and MicroPython, but to get the best from this board we really need to use CircuitPython. With CircuitPython we have an easy to use dialect of Python 3, a large selection of libraries ensuring we can pick up and connect a Stemma QT / Qwiic board and start hacking. CircuitPython is the ideal way to experience Trinkey QT2040.
The USB form factor means that Trinkey QT2040 can be connected to a computer which requires quick access to a hardware hacking platform. Need to hack some I2C components, Trinkey QT2040 will enable you to plug in and hack.
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Robot at the Park
Embedded Podcast
🎙 Embedded Podcast: Robot at the Park (snippet)
Erin Kennedy spoke with us about learning new things, nice robots at the beach, lighting up fog voxels, and being part of the maker community. Erin’s Robot Missions was founded to develop robots to clean shorelines of plastic.
Erin also worked on a Hackaday Dream Team that worked on innovations to reduce the environmental impact of lost or abandoned fishing equipment.
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Erin Kennedy spoke with us about learning new things, nice robots at the beach, lighting up fog voxels, and being part of the maker community. Erin’s Robot Missions was founded to develop robots to clean shorelines of plastic.
Erin also worked on a Hackaday Dream Team that worked on innovations to reduce the environmental impact of lost or abandoned fishing equipment.
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🤖 Arduino based SCARA Robot
In this tutorial we will learn how to build an Arduino based SCARA Robot
The robot has 4 degrees of freedom and it’s driven by 4 NEMA 17 stepper motors. Additionally, it has a small servo motor for controlling the end effector or the robot gripper in this case.
The brain of this SCARA robot is an Arduino UNO board which is paired with a CNC shield and four A4988 stepper drivers for controlling the motors.
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#projects #arduino #robots #3d_modeling
In this tutorial we will learn how to build an Arduino based SCARA Robot
The robot has 4 degrees of freedom and it’s driven by 4 NEMA 17 stepper motors. Additionally, it has a small servo motor for controlling the end effector or the robot gripper in this case.
The brain of this SCARA robot is an Arduino UNO board which is paired with a CNC shield and four A4988 stepper drivers for controlling the motors.
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#projects #arduino #robots #3d_modeling
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🎬 Development of a Rocket with landing feature
Incredibly interesting video explaining the process of building of a rocket with ability of landing vertically (like SpaceX rockets). Would be extremely useful for control engineers as author talks a lot about data analysis. Moreover, the electronics and programming parts are also discussed in a video.
https://youtu.be/YixmPK26upk
#video #design #control
Incredibly interesting video explaining the process of building of a rocket with ability of landing vertically (like SpaceX rockets). Would be extremely useful for control engineers as author talks a lot about data analysis. Moreover, the electronics and programming parts are also discussed in a video.
https://youtu.be/YixmPK26upk
#video #design #control
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Scout E - Flight 1 Launch + Landing
Flight 2 coming soon! I'll post updates about that, and the Kalman filter investigation on Twitter: https://twitter.com/joebarnard
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📥 Embox - configurable operating system for embedded systems
Embox main idea is using Linux software everywhere including MCUs.
Imagine, you need a single application in the embedded system, but you want to use some libraries (Qt, OpenCV, etc). In the Linux case, you need high-performance hardware. In Embox case you can use the software as bare-metal including the only required system parts.
In other words, Embox is util which allows creating a special distributive for your exact purpose. Although there are kernel, network, file system, standard POSIX library etc. you can accurately configure every module. Therefore it will include only those parts that you wish.
Embox allows you to:
▫️ use low power hardware
▫️ use boards with small resources
▫️ use existing software
▫️ develop your software on Linux
▫️ care less about security because static linking disables executing external software
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Embox main idea is using Linux software everywhere including MCUs.
Imagine, you need a single application in the embedded system, but you want to use some libraries (Qt, OpenCV, etc). In the Linux case, you need high-performance hardware. In Embox case you can use the software as bare-metal including the only required system parts.
In other words, Embox is util which allows creating a special distributive for your exact purpose. Although there are kernel, network, file system, standard POSIX library etc. you can accurately configure every module. Therefore it will include only those parts that you wish.
Embox allows you to:
▫️ use low power hardware
▫️ use boards with small resources
▫️ use existing software
▫️ develop your software on Linux
▫️ care less about security because static linking disables executing external software
More information...
#operating_systems #software