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Bruno The Robotic Bear, Aaron Brauner, Ian Panzer
Bruno The Robotic Bear, Aaron Brauner, Ian Panzer
Computer Engineering
Creating homemade robots are becoming a popular hobby among engineers. With the dramatic reduction in costs over the past few decades, it is finally possible to build a personal automated mailbox. Microcontrollers needed to function as the brains of the robot are also becoming powerful enough that relatively complicated instructions could be programmed into the robot to handle a plethora of sensors and peripherals. In order to demonstrate how the Computer Engineering department models the synthesis of computer science and electrical engineering, the topic chosen was robotics, specifically, a stuffed bear robot.
The microcontroller chosen was the Arduino Mega 2560 …
Robotic Kinect Bear, Spencer Lines, Dennis Waldron, Sagiv Sheelo
Robotic Kinect Bear, Spencer Lines, Dennis Waldron, Sagiv Sheelo
Computer Engineering
The goal of this project was to create an interactive 53”-tall robotic teddy bear to showcase various aspects of Cal Poly’s computer engineering degree. The interactive element took the form of a Microsoft Kinect for Windows sensor, which provided body and face position tracking of the user. Using this sensor and various other elements, we successfully made a teddy bear which mirrors a user's face and arm positions in real-time.