Merry Christmas everyone! Here is what I have added to Visuino for Christmas! :-)

Merry Christmas everyone! :-)

Here is what I just added to Visuino for Christmas:

Few of weeks ago, the great folks at MakerHawk-US sent me this cool ESP-32F Development Board with 1.44inch TFT LCD Screen KIT for the Visuino development :-)

I have already mapped the board in Visuino and plan to have release with the support in the next few days:

And will start posting tutorials for it soon :-)

Cheer,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #ESP32

Assemble the official version Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 1: Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them

Few of weeks ago I received another Cool Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo donated for the Visuino development :-).

This is the Final Production Version of the Robot. I already posted videos for the Preproduction version, and now here is the first assembly video of the production version.

I already posted Unboxing Video for it, and promised Assembly videos.
Here is the first Assembly Video - Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Received cool ESP-32F Development Board with 1.44inch TFT LCD Screen from MakerHawk-US for the Visuino development!

Couple of days ago, the great folks at MakerHawk-US sent me a cool ESP-32F Development Board with 1.44inch TFT LCD Screen KIT for the Visuino development :-)

Here are some pictures:

Comes well packed in a nice box:

The main ESP32 board the display and an USB cable:

The board powered and running the preprogrammed code:

It also includes speaker, and RGB LED on the front and MicroSD on the back:

I am already looking into how to best support the board in Visuino , and hope to have the support available soon and to start posting tutorials :-)

Cheer,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #ESP32

Pictures from SoCal CodeCamp 2018 last week

Last week, I had the opportunity to present at SoCal CodeCamp in LA again :-)
I had 4 sessions, and it was a busy, and tiring day for me, but I was able to snap some pictures and here they are :-)

Arriving at CodeCamp in the morning:




To the registration:


and the Exhibitors area:


Conveniently, all of my sessions were arranged in a single room:


And continued through the day with only one gap:


The Sunday morning session had as expected fairly small crowd, but by the afternoon the attendance was much better:






And the closing of the event:

This was another fun SoCal CodeCamp event, and I am already looking forward to the next one :-)

In the next 1-2 days, I plan to also post the projects and powerpoint presentations from the sessions, so stay tuned ;-)

Cheers,

  Boian

#CodeCamp

My Visuino and Delphi Sessions at SoCal Code Camp in USC, Los Angeles on November 11th

I plan to present 4 Visuino and Delphi sessions at the SoCal Code Camp in USC, Los Angeles on November 11th:

• Video, Audio Processing, DSP, and Animations with Delphi
• Implementing Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision with Delphi
• Programming Arduino Robots with Visuino
• Programming Arduinos, and implementing Internet of Things with Visuino

You can see the complete list of sessions here:

http://www.socalcodecamp.com/sessions.aspx

If you are in the area, please join the sessions. The Conference is Free!

Please also vote for the session, if you plan to attend, so the organizers can assign room with proper size :-)

Last 3 years, I attended the conference (You can actually see me on the picture above almost right in the center :-D ), and it was a great event!

Even if you are not interested in my sessions, please check out all the great sessions by the rest of the presenters!

Please note that the site seems to be very popular, and sometimes the server is overwhelmed and timeouts. If you get timeout error, please try later again!

#Delphi #OpenWire #Visuino

Just received new cool Pre Production Balancing Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo for the Visuino development, and posted Unboxing video :-)

Yesterday I received a brand new Arduino Balancing Robot KIT from Elegoo donated for the Visuino development :-).

Here is Unboxing Video of the robot KIT:

This is a pre production version of the robot KIT and it does not have even manual yet. However, with some help from the friendly Elegoo people, I was able to assemble the robot, and here are some pictures of it.

Here are some pictures of the assembled robot:

It arrived well packed:

In a very nice tightly packed box:

I am working on the Assembly videos, and hope to post them in the following days.

The robot comes with fair number of sensors, RGB LEDs and more and I will be exploring it all in the coming days. Once I am familiar with it, I will see to map the Breakout board as Arduino Shield in Visuino and will start working on programming the robot with Visuino , so stay tuned :-)

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot

Assemble Macetech Arduino RGB NeoPixel Shades KIT Step 2: Assemble The Front Panel

Couple of weeks ago I received a cool Macetech Arduino RGB Shades KIT from Jim McKeeth of Embarcadero donated for the Visuino development :-) .

I already posted:
Unboxing Video
Step 1: Assemble The Temples

Here is the second Assembly Video - Assemble The Front Panel

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days.
I have also already added the RGB Shades support in Visuino, and it is available in the current release :-)

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino  #Arduino #Delphi #Macetech

Received the official release version of Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo for the Visuino development, and posted Unboxing video :-)

Couple of weeks ago I received another Cool Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo donated for the Visuino development :-).

This is the Final Production Version of the Robot. I already posted videos for the Preproduction Version that I received a while ago, and now I am starting with the Unboxing of the new version.
There are some changes in the design, and I will cover them during the new Assembly videos.
Here is the Unboxing Video of the new version:

I am preparing the Assembly videos for new Robot and will post them in the following days. I have mapped the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.

After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble Macetech Arduino RGB NeoPixel Shades KIT Step 1: Assemble The Temples

About a week ago I received a cool Macetech Arduino RGB Shades KIT from Jim McKeeth of Embarcadero donated for the Visuino development :-) .

I already posted Unboxing Video for it, and promised Assembly videos.
Here is the first Assembly Video - Assemble The Temples

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days.
I have also already added the RGB Shades support in Visuino, and it is available in the current release :-)

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino  #Arduino #Delphi #Macetech

Assemble Pre Production Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 8: Center The Servos

Few weeks ago, the great folks from Elegoo sent me a  Cool new Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT .
The Robot is now available to purchase. The KIT I used in the video was a pre production version.
I have also received the production version, and will post videos for it too :-)

I already posted:

Unboxing Video
Step 1: Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them
Step 2: Assemble The Legs
Step 3: Install The Legs
Step 4: Install and Connect the Arduino Control Board
Step 5: Install and Connect the Speakers
Step 6: Install and Connect the Ultrasonic Ranger
Step 7: Finish the Assembly

Here is the 8th Assembly Video - Center The Servos

I am preparing the Assembly videos for the release version of the Robot and will post them in the following days. I have mapped the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.

After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

My "Video Processing with Delphi Part 7 (Video Capture from Web Cameras, IP Cameras, TV Tuners, Web Streams, Generate, Record, Broadcast, and Receive Video)" article in the Blaise Pascal Magazine is published :-)

And my 7th Video Processing with Delphi is now published in the Blaise Pascal Magazine :-)
In the previous articles I introduced you to many of the cool features of VideoLab, playing filtering and morphing videos. I also showed you how you can create cool video effects and animate them with AnimationLab. I even showed you how you can render InstrumentLab gauges, and clocks inside the video, and how you can render the video in variety of 2D and 3D surfaces.

In this article, I demonstrate how easy it is to capture from variety of devices or online video streams, generate your own video, and how to record or broadcast the captured or generated video.

In the article I used the latest VideoLab features, added recently. They are not available in the official VideoLab, release yet, so if you want to follow the article, you should download and install the latest prerelease that I posted recently here:

http://labpacks.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-first-delphi-102-tokyo-compatible.html

You can get the magazine from the Blaise Pascal Magazine website here.

Here are some pages from the article:

Please enjoy :-)

I am already working on the next Article, so stay tuned ;-)

Cheers,

  Boian

#Delphi #OpenWire

Received a cool Macetech Arduino RGB Shades KIT from Jim McKeeth of Embarcadero for the Visuino development, and posted Unboxing video :-)

Last week I received a cool Macetech Arduino RGB Shades KIT from Jim McKeeth of Embarcadero donated for the Visuino development :-).

The kit comes in a nice box:

And here is what's inside:

Here is the unboxing video:

I hope you will enjoy the video :-).

I have already assembled the Shades and plan to start programming it with Visuino :-) . As part of the effort I already added RGB Shades support in Visuino, and it will be available in the next release :-)

The RGB Shades are now available as Arduino Board:

And all the modules are mapped in Visuino:

Jim McKeeth also has a Shades KIT and is planning some really cool Visuino and Delphi projects with the Shades, so make sure you follow him! :-)
I will be posting Assembly videos shortly, so stay tuned!

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino  #Arduino #Delphi #Macetech

Assemble Pre Production Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 7: Finish the Assembly

Few weeks ago, the great folks from Elegoo sent me a  Cool new Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT .
The Robot is now available to purchase. The KIT I used in the video was a pre production version.
I have also received the production version, and will post videos for it too :-)

I already posted:

Unboxing Video
Step 1: Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them
Step 2: Assemble The Legs
Step 3: Install The Legs
Step 4: Install and Connect the Arduino Control Board
Step 5: Install and Connect the Speakers
Step 6: Install and Connect the Ultrasonic Ranger

Here is the 7th Assembly Video - Finish the Assembly

I am preparing the Assembly videos for the release version of the Robot and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble Yah Boom micro:bit Robot KIT Step 3: Installing the Battery And the micro:bit Controller

Few weeks ago, I received a cool BBC micro:bit Yah Boom Robot KIT from Makerfabs donated for the Visuino development :-).

I already posted:

• Unboxing Video
• Step 1: Install The Motors and Wheels
• Step 2: Install The Ultrasonic Ranger

Here is the third Assembly Video - Install the Battery And the micro:bit Controller

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also already mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino:

Now I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino  #microbit #Makerfabs #Robot #YahBoom

Assemble Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 6: Install and Connect the Ultrasonic Ranger

Few weeks ago, the great folks from Elegoo sent me a  Cool new Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT .
The Robot is not yet for sale, and I have received one of the very first robot kits.

I already posted:

Unboxing Video
Step 1: Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them
Step 2: Assemble The Legs
Step 3: Install The Legs
Step 4: Install and Connect the Arduino Control Board
Step 5: Install and Connect the Speakers

Here is the 6th Assembly Video - Install and Connect the Ultrasonic Ranger

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Programming Kuman Smart Car Arduino Robot SM11 with Visuino: Control the Motors

Few months ago, I received a Cool Arduino Robot Car SM11 KIT from the great folks at Kuman generously donated for the Visuino development :-).

I already posted the Assembly Videos:
Unboxing video
Step 1: Installing the Motors and Attaching the Wheels
Step 2: Installing The Boards And Sensors
Step 3: Assemble the Ultrasonic Ranger mount, and install the Ultrasonic Ranger on it
Step 4: Installing the Servo, the Ultrasonic Ranger, and the Battery Box
Step 5: Connecting the Motor Driver Board and the Battery Box Cables
Step 6: Connecting the Sensors, Servo, Buzzer, Button, and Turn Signal LEDs to the Sensor Shield on top of the Arduino UNO
Step 7: Installing The LED Lights and Turn Signals
Step 8: Installing The Infrared Remote Receiver
Step 9: Installing The HC-06 Bluetooth Module
Step 10: Charge and Install The Batteries
Step 11: Program the Arduino with Visuino to Center The Servo

Now it is time to show you how to program the robot.
Here is the first video on: Programming the robot with Visuino  to control the motors.

As shown in the Video, the original wiring of the robot has a small limitation, and does not allow speed control on one side of the Robot, when using the Arduino Servo Library.

Here is the remapping needed to fix this problem:

Original Arduino Board pin mapping with the Arduino Servo library conflict:

Remapped Arduino Board pin mapping compatible with the Arduino Servo library:

Original Sensor Shield pin mapping with the Arduino Servo library conflict:

Remapped Sensor Shield pin mapping compatible with the Arduino Servo library:

I will be posting more tutorials on programming the Robot with Visuino so stay tuned! :-)

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Kuman #Robot

Assemble Yah Boom micro:bit Robot KIT Step 2: Installing The Ultrasonic Ranger

Few weeks ago, I received a cool BBC micro:bit Yah Boom Robot KIT from Makerfabs donated for the Visuino development :-).

I already posted:

• Unboxing Video
• Step 1: Install The Motors and Wheels

Here is the second Assembly Video - Install The Ultrasonic Ranger

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino  #microbit #Makerfabs #Robot #YahBoom

Assemble Kuman Smart Car Arduino Robot KIT SM11 Step 11: Program the Arduino with Visuino to Center The Servo

Few months ago, I received a Cool Arduino Robot Car SM11 KIT from the great folks at Kuman generously donated for the Visuino development :-).

I already posted:
Unboxing video
Step 1: Installing the Motors and Attaching the Wheels
Step 2: Installing The Boards And Sensors
Step 3: Assemble the Ultrasonic Ranger mount, and install the Ultrasonic Ranger on it
Step 4: Installing the Servo, the Ultrasonic Ranger, and the Battery Box
Step 5: Connecting the Motor Driver Board and the Battery Box Cables
Step 6: Connecting the Sensors, Servo, Buzzer, Button, and Turn Signal LEDs to the Sensor Shield on top of the Arduino UNO
Step 7: Installing The LED Lights and Turn Signals
Step 8: Installing The Infrared Remote Receiver
Step 9: Installing The HC-06 Bluetooth Module
Step 10: Charge and Install The Batteries

And here is the 11th assembly video - Program the Arduino with Visuino to Center The Servo:

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days.
I have also mapped the Robot functionality in Visuino, and I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Kuman #Robot

Assemble Kuman Smart Car Arduino Robot KIT SM11 Step 10: Charge and Install The Batteries

Few months ago, I received a Cool Arduino Robot Car SM11 KIT from the great folks at Kuman generously donated for the Visuino development :-).
Due to some health problems, and heavy work on the Visuino , the Mitov Software Libraries and couple of other robots, I was not able to post new videos for it, but finally I have found a gap and recorded some more.

I already posted:
Unboxing video
Step 1: Installing the Motors and Attaching the Wheels
Step 2: Installing The Boards And Sensors
Step 3: Assemble the Ultrasonic Ranger mount, and install the Ultrasonic Ranger on it
Step 4: Installing the Servo, the Ultrasonic Ranger, and the Battery Box
Step 5: Connecting the Motor Driver Board and the Battery Box Cables
Step 6: Connecting the Sensors, Servo, Buzzer, Button, and Turn Signal LEDs to the Sensor Shield on top of the Arduino UNO
Step 7: Installing The LED Lights and Turn Signals
Step 8: Installing The Infrared Remote Receiver
Step 9: Installing The HC-06 Bluetooth Module

And here is, after a long delay, the 10th assembly video - Charge and Install The Batteries:

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days.
I am also looking into what is the best way to map the Robot functionality in Visuino .
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Kuman #Robot

Assemble Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 5: Install and Connect the Speakers

Few weeks ago, the great folks from Elegoo sent me a  Cool new Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT .
The Robot is not yet for sale, and I have received one of the very first robot kits.

I already posted:

Unboxing Video
Step 1: Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them
Step 2: Assemble The Legs
Step 3: Install The Legs
Step 4: Install and Connect the Arduino Control Board

Here is the 5th Assembly Video - Install and Connect the Speakers

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble Yah Boom micro:bit Robot KIT Step 1: Installing The Motors and Wheels

Couple weeks ago, I received a cool BBC micro:bit Yah Boom Robot KIT from Makerfabs donated for the Visuino development :-).

I already posted Unboxing Video for it, and promised Assembly videos.
Here is the first Assembly Video - Install The Motors and Wheels

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino  #microbit #Makerfabs #Robot #YahBoom

Assemble Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 4: Install and Connect the Arduino Control Board

Couple of weeks ago, the great folks from Elegoo sent me a  Cool new Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT .
The Robot is not yet for sale, and I have received one of the very first robot kits.

I already posted:

Unboxing Video
Step 1: Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them
Step 2: Assemble The Legs
Step 3: Install The Legs

Here is the 4th Assembly Video - Install and Connect the Arduino Control Board

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Received a cool BBC micro:bit Yah Boom Robot KIT from Makerfabs for the Visuino development, and posted Unboxing video :-)

Last week I received a cool BBC micro:bit Yah Boom Robot KIT from Makerfabs donated for the Visuino development :-).

Here is the unboxing video:

This is how the assembled robot looks like:

I hope you will enjoy the video :-).

I have already assembled the Robot and plan to start programming it with Visuino :-) . As part of the effort I already added initial BBC micro:bit support in Visuino, and it will be available in the next release :-)
I will be posting Assembly videos shortly, so stay tuned!

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino  #microbit #Makerfabs #Robot #YahBoom

Received 2 Arduino Infrared Obstacle Avoidance Sensor Modules from XiaoR Geek for the Visuino development!

Few days ago, the great folks at XiaoR Geek sent me 2 Infrared Obstacle Avoidance Sensor Modules for the Visuino development :-)

Here are some pictures:

I will be traveling for the next couple of days, but when I am back, I will see to make some video tutorials for using the sensors with Arduino and Visuino :-)

Cheer,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino

Assemble Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 3: Install The Legs

Couple of weeks ago, the great folks from Elegoo sent me a  Cool new Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT .
The Robot is not yet for sale, and I have received one of the very first robot kits.

I already posted:

Unboxing Video
Step 1: Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them
Step 2: Assemble The Legs

Here is the third Assembly Video - Install The Legs

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 2: Assemble The Legs

Last week the great folks from Elegoo sent me a  Cool new Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT .
The Robot is not yet for sale, and I have received one of the very first robot kits.

I already posted:

Unboxing Video
Step 1: Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them

Here is the second Assembly Video - Assemble The Legs

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 1: Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them

Last week the great folks from Elegoo sent me a  Cool new Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT .
The Robot is not yet for sale, and I have received one of the very first robot kits.

I already posted Unboxing Video for it, and promised Assembly videos.
Here is the first Assembly Video - Assemble The Feet, and Install the Servos controlling them

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I have also started mapping the Robot's functionality in Visuino, and hope to have improved support in few days.
After that I will try to make some Visuino tutorials for the Robot.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot