Robotics design, gadgets, hacks, and DIY technology.

This is a bit late so you can skip it if you already know it. I was interviewed and featured in an article about the future of robotics on the New Scientist magazine from January 2012. The article was written by the awesome Celeste Biever.

Needless to say, I am truly humbled to have been quoted among so many amazing roboticists including Andrew Ng (my dear ML Class professor).

In the last year, I created my first full hardware design, including its custom firmware, for RobotShop. Of course, the design is open source so you can reuse it however you like. The end-result is the MyRobots Connect, a Serial-to-Ethernet gateway.

I used the amazing Eagle and you can find the design files in the MyRobots Github page. If you want to know more about how this device works, see its wiki page. But in short, it translates serial messages received via XBee into HTTP GETs to MyRobots API.

See below some PCB pr0n.

Wolfram|Alpha Knowledge Engine

Using the Google Speech-to-Text behaviour, I created an interface to access the Wolfram|Alpha knowledge engine through Nao 1337. As shown in the video below, Nao can now be used to answer very important existential questions about memes.

You can download the code in the project page at the Developer Program site.