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| playground:thbbi [2021/05/06 02:12] – [intro] inne | playground:thbbi [2021/05/09 01:40] – [road to winter festival] inne | ||
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| - | As with anything unfamiliar its wise to start designing something simple. A soft robotic bubble is a great project. It let' | + | As with anything unfamiliar its wise to start designing something simple. A soft robotic bubble is a great project. It lets you get the hang of both motor control and pouring silicone. |
| - | The less complexity the less that can go wrong. For dealing with the always critical onlooker, just tell them you are working on a one degrees of freedom soft robotic actuator. | + | The less complexity the less that can go wrong. For dealing with the always critical onlooker, just tell them you are working on a one degrees of freedom soft robotic actuator. Which is what I ended up making. |
| - | Around the time I was working on this our community Makerspace got visited by the neighborhood committee. They were looking to spice up the local winter festival with some technology. The prototype bubble turned into an " | + | Around the time I was working on this, our community Makerspace got visited by the neighborhood committee. They were looking to spice up the local winter festival with some technology. The prototype bubble turned into an " |
| The winter festival is a weekend long event with, by and for our neighborhood. It's free and anyone is welcome to visit. The soft robotic bubbles garnered a lot of attention especially with the many kids at the festival. The bubbles themselves proved to be very robust which made the installation weirdly interactive. It is nice to have something to show for your work and I really enjoyed my time at the festival. | The winter festival is a weekend long event with, by and for our neighborhood. It's free and anyone is welcome to visit. The soft robotic bubbles garnered a lot of attention especially with the many kids at the festival. The bubbles themselves proved to be very robust which made the installation weirdly interactive. It is nice to have something to show for your work and I really enjoyed my time at the festival. | ||
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| When I heard the announcement of the raspberry pi Pico, I got pretty excited about the PIO functionality. PIO seems to be perfect to control both neopixels and airflow, while still being able make decisions with the main loop. So a great prospect for soft robotics control. Thus I decided to reincarnate the festival bubbles into a desktop bubble, a portable soft bubble for code testing, prototyping and showing of soft robotics. | When I heard the announcement of the raspberry pi Pico, I got pretty excited about the PIO functionality. PIO seems to be perfect to control both neopixels and airflow, while still being able make decisions with the main loop. So a great prospect for soft robotics control. Thus I decided to reincarnate the festival bubbles into a desktop bubble, a portable soft bubble for code testing, prototyping and showing of soft robotics. | ||
| - | Assembling the first version went pretty well. The electronics for the festival prototype could be reused and there were still spare bubbles. Running Circuit Python on the Pico was also really straightforward. The only challenging bit so far was running the airpump via PIO. Though with the book, the datasheet and code examples (which were are all really readable) I got the job done in the end. Since then there have been learn guides[link to guide] published about how to specifically do PIO on Circuit Python so it should be more straightforward to get into at the time writhing. All said and done it was still pretty fun. | + | Assembling the first version went pretty well. The electronics for the festival prototype could be reused and there were still spare bubbles. Running Circuit Python on the Pico was also really straightforward. The only challenging bit so far was running the airpump via PIO. Though with the book, the datasheet and code examples (which were are all really readable) I got the job done in the end. Since then there have been learn guides[link to guide] published about how to specifically do PIO on Circuit Python so it should be more straightforward to get into at the time writing. All said and done it was still pretty fun. |
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| - | The next milestone will be adding the pressure sensor and making it battery powered. My main goal is to turn the Desktop Bubble into a learn guide and the electronics into a feather wing. Hopefully this will make starting | + | The next milestone will be adding the pressure sensor and making it battery powered. My main goal is to turn the Desktop Bubble into a learn guide and the electronics into a feather wing. Hopefully this will make starting |
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