Half-Built-Robots: page 4

July 2023, I was in Minneapolis for the Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) conference for my employer. After I wrapped up, my husband (boyfriend at the time) and I went to the Mall of America. First…

This was RoboGames in Pleasanton, April 2023. Practically in my backyard, since I work in Pleasanton and lived in Dublin at the time. I went with my boyfriend (now husband). I had wanted to go to one…

This was a small project right at the start of COVID-19, where I needed two Universal Robots UR3e robot arms under ROS control. It was early lockdown, so there was no way I was getting into the lab…

Bubbles wasn’t always in such a sorry state. He (originally a she) was a gift my little sister received (for Christmas or birthday, I forget which). The toy line was Hasbro’s FurReal Friends GoGo My…

It has been a few years since I did a home automation update (see my 2022 update) and a lot has changed. I moved (twice), got some new devices, have both Google Home and Alexa agents, and started work…

When I moved out to the Bay Area (California), I purchased a small KOIOS air filter to keep the wildfire smoke at a reasonable level in my (at the time) one-bedroom apartment. After a while, I…

January 2022, this was at the San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore. I went with my husband (boyfriend at the time) early in our relationship. I had just moved out to the Bay Area (Dublin) in…

Orion was a project I tackled in undergrad. I wanted to build a mobile base that could be used for experimentation (and I wanted it to be sturdy). Plus I had just gotten access to a makerspace and…

This is a short retrospective post on my home automation setup back in undergrad at MSOE. Unfortunately this was not well documented, but it was an interesting start to my home automation tinkering…

Triclops is another one of my incomplete projects. It started while I was a freshman at Milwaukee School of Engineering. My goal was to build a Spinbot: a single motor robot that modulates its speed…