Our first and perhaps one of the biggest hurdles is to engineer a mechanism that can control the steering of the vehicle. After the winter break, my focus has been on engineering the steering control system. Michael is working on the Arduino & motor controller & Jetson. Today, I finished the first iteration of the…
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After deciding that we will build a self-driving golf cart, it’s time to buy a golf cart! Craiglist is the natural place to go. After several insulting phone calls from disrespectful callers, we finally narrowed it down to a Yamaha Electric. This 1,000$ beast is not perfect, namely, the front cover is broken and one…
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What if I can ride around campus in a self-driving golf cart? The question is not what if, the question is how can I make it happen. Over the summer, I have been working on some supervise machine learning research, specifically related to self-driving vehicles. In the meantime, my good friend, a math genius, and…
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After three months of hard work, my quadcopter is finally defying gravity. A couple of days ago, I fly the drone around campus with a GoPro camera.
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Introduction This spring in my robotics class, we have the freedom to build whatever robot our hearts desire. I always wanted to build a quadcopter. I love things that can defy gravity. This is my chance. I started with leftover parts from another project a couple of years ago. A group of students tried to…
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Purpose/ What our robot does: The purpose of the assignment was to create a robot that could follow a line of black electrical tape on a white dry erase board. Design Process: The first step of the assignment was to research the hardware and software of line following robots. The hardware includes a breadboard, an Arduino, a…
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Neil Nie 