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Current projects

Welcome to my lab

The state of my desk pretty much represents what I am currently working on:

  • In the middle is the Holit Data Systems motor-MUX.  That’s the big sensor with the 5 ports and the bright LEDs on it.  I am writing a ROBOTC driver for it.
  • Just below that is the HiTechnic sensor-MUX, I’ve written an NXC driver for it that is currently being tested (thanks, Hunter!)
  • Up towards the left is the NXTCamV3 in its pan and tilt rig.  It still needs quite a bit of work to prevent it from going nuts when it loses the tracked object.
  • Bottom left is some documentation on the upcoming Mindsensors motor-MUX.  Judging by the specs, it is seriously tweakable. I’ll write more about it when I get my hands on it.

The cute little mini-robots in the picture were created by Hunter Chiou and are called “Little N”.  You can see more detailed pictures on his Brickshelf Gallery: [LINK]. His blog can be found here: [LINK].  Unless you are fluent in Chinese, you may want to run it through Google Translate, you’ll end up with something like this: [LINK].

About Xander

Xander Soldaat is a Software Engineer and former Infrastructure Architect. He loves building and programming robots. He recently had the opportunity to turn his robotics hobby into his profession and has started working for Robomatter, the makers of ROBOTC and Robot Virtual Words.