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MeBot – A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence
The MeBot is a semi-autonomous robotic avatar that gives a person a richer way to interact remotely with an audience than is allowed with phone and video conferencing. The robot was designed with an emphasis on being able to convey the non-verbal channels of social communication. That is, it is able to communicate some body [...] -
MCB Mini – Motor control scheme
A motor control scheme was developed to address the very specific needs and demands of the research robots that are developed and used by the Personal Robots group at the Media Lab. The development of robots that should have the ability to display rich expressiveness as well dexterity and movement in human-like ways requires an [...] -
Human centric Robot Navigation – voice control, simulation, real robots
This project aimed at providing human-centric control of mobile and expressive robots to ease human-robot collaboration. The robot was afforded the ability to understand locations in terms of their names (kitchen, hallway, bedroom etc.) and the locations of people in terms of the person’s name. The operator controls the robot using a simple overhead map [...] -
TouchTable – General purpose smart table
I made a multipurpose transparent desk that has the ability to sense the hand and finger positions of anybody who touches it. This makes it a very interesting input device for your computer as it can act as your keyboard, sketch board, musical instrument, etc. The sensing method is based on a technology called Frustrated [...] -
On Disambiguation of Word Meaning in Translation
On Disambiguation of Word Meaning in Translation A Probabilistic Topic Model approach to Improve Text Translation Software Abstract The probabilistic topic model is a powerful that has possible uses in a wide variety of applications, ranging from giving robots the ability to infer the meaning of new words in text recognition or even speech recognition [...] -
Walker – A quadruped robot
This was my final project for How To Make Almost Anything I wanted to build a simple robot that could walk around and explore its environment, furthermore I wanted to build as much of it as I could custom so the sonar sensor is custom made, the servo controller is custom made and the control [...] -
16-Channel Servo Controller
I needed a servo controller that was capable of controlling multiple motors at the same time. Using a commercial controller was not an option because I needed this controller for my final project in How To Make Almost Anything and Neil Gershenfeld wanted us to fabricate all parts of our projects. I designed a controller [...] -
Fabaroni – Pasta 3D Printer
The Fabaroni 3D printer was designed by a group of MIT students in Neil Gershenfeld’s class, How To Make Almost Anything. The printer extrudes pasta dough and can make arbitrarily shaped pasta We considered many different materials for extrusion: melted gummy bears, marzipan and chocolate just to name a few. Eventually we decided to go [...] -
Sonar Sensor
I made a sonar sensor to sense distance. I used two ultrasonic transducers, an op-amp and a microcontroller for the job. Basically, the microcontroller creates a pulse train of about 20 pulses at 40kHz, which is the frequency that the transducers are optimized for. This pulse train is sent to the transmitting transducer. Once the [...] -
LED Message Badge
I made a custom message LED badge made in response to the Star Simpson controversy. Star was a student in our group and got a very unfair treatment by the authorities, the media and MIT when she accidentally wore an electronic badge in the Logan airport. I made an array of 36 orange LEDs, found [...]