I gave a “Tech Talk” at Google about the projects I’m working on: ViewPort, the premier debugging tool for the Propeller, DanceBot, an interactive vision guided balancing robot, and PropScope, a multi-function usb oscilloscope/logic analyzer/function generator to be sold at retail for $199. See here for the video and here for my slides.

Talking about ViewPort/PropScope/DanceBot at Google

I’ve been busy giving talks and demos of my projects at Silicon Valley’s Homebrew Robotics Club, Willow Garage, Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Here are some Slides and Video

Pick up the March ’09 issue of Circuit Cellar or read the feature article here: Vision-Guided Robotics
A Next-Generation Balancing Robot DanceBot is still a prototype, but you can sign the waiting list here.

During the Christmas Holidays, DanceBot balanced a flute of champagne (yes, it was filled!) on two wheels as part of an art exhibit. We had some accidents but DanceBot survived the ordeal. Read all about it

DanceBot balances flute of champagne

My local robot club had a line-following theme the other night so I taught DanceBot to follow lines using computer vision. The video signal from a miniature camera is digitized and processed by DanceBot’s Propeller to guide it along a black line.