Startup Weekend Conejo Valley 2024 at Hub101

Last weekend, I attended Startup Weekend Conejo Valley 2024 as a mentor.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-weekend-conejo-valley-2024-tickets-1013981996447

This was a great event organized by the nice folks at Hub101 :-)

Part of California Lutheran University’s Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Hub101 is the premier startup community hub for the Conejo Valley and Ventura County.

Hub101 also offers coworking space, and organizes some great events!

Here are some pictures I took from the event:

Friday the event kickoff - the path to the event:

The swagger:

In preparation for the event:

The gathering crowd:

Including the smallest attendee :-) :

The opening:

There were many Startup proposals. We all voted on them. In the end, 5 proposals were selected for the event, and teams were formed:

Saturday the teams were busy working on the projects. Here is some of the food that was prepared for them:

Sunday evening the time was up, and the teams had to present what they had done, and the judges were getting ready to vet the Startups:

Team 1 - AI-powered filter for privacy settings and policy agreements:

Team 2 - AI-powered personal companion, helping with mental challenges:

Team 3 - Platform for easy building and management of ADUs:

Team 4 - AI Alter Ego - create an AI copy of yourself that will take a different career path:

Team 5 - Platform directly connecting fishermen with consumers.

Awards were given to all teams for different achievements:

And finally, we all had a nice final dinner :-) :

All in all, it was another great event organized by Hub101. I am looking forward to their next event :-).

Visuino is updated to support the new ESP32 3.0 platform!

Few days ago Espressif released new version of the ESP32 Arduino platform 3.0.

Unfortunately the 3.0 version has a large number of breaking changes, and was not compatible with the Visuino generated code :-( .
This sent me scrambling to update Visuino to the new version, and today finally I was able to make a release fixing this :-).

Here is a video showing how to upgrade the ESP32 platform to 3.0.X:

Please note that while Visuino mostly uses its own libraries, there are couple of exceptions. As example it uses the IRremote library to work with Infrared Remote transmitters.

Sadly ESP32 3.0 does not support the Hall Sensor any more, so I was forced to also remove the support for it :-( . Trust me, I tried all I could to find any way to support it, but since there was no source for the support on low level, that I was able to find, I had to give up :-( .

ESP32 3.0 also changes the default partitions for the boards. You may need to change the partition if you are building a big project!

Here is a video showing how to change the ESP32 Partition:

Currently the IRremote library is not yet ESP32 3.0.X compatible. Hopefully it will be updated in the coming days, but at present there are problems when using Infrared Remote devices with ESP32 :-( .

You can download the latest Visuino here:

https://www.visuino.com/downloads/

Please Enjoy! :-)

Assemble Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Ver1 - Step 10: Install the Battery Box

     Couple of years ago I received another Cool Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo donated for the Visuino development :-). Unfortunately due to health issues, and work on Visuino, I was not able to finish posting all the assembly videos at the time :-(.

Finally now I have a chance to post all the remaining videos.

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

Step 4: Assemble The Baseplate

Step 5: Install The Legs

Step 6: Install The Arduino Control Board

Step 7: Install The Speakers

Step 8: Install the Side Panels

Step 9: Install the Ultrasonic Ranger

Here is the tenth Install the Battery Box

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I also have showed programming the Robot with Visuino and controlling it from Delphi Application:

Controlling Visuino Programmed Arduino Robots from Delphi Apps

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Ver1 - Step 9: Install the Ultrasonic Ranger

    Couple of years ago I received another Cool Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo donated for the Visuino development :-). Unfortunately due to health issues, and work on Visuino, I was not able to finish posting all the assembly videos at the time :-(.

Finally now I have a chance to post all the remaining videos.

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

Step 4: Assemble The Baseplate

Step 5: Install The Legs

Step 6: Install The Arduino Control Board

Step 7: Install The Speakers

Step 8: Install the Side Panels

Here is the ninth Install the Ultrasonic Ranger

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I also have showed programming the Robot with Visuino and controlling it from Delphi Application:

Controlling Visuino Programmed Arduino Robots from Delphi Apps

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble the official version 1 Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 8: Install the Side Panels

   Couple of years ago I received another Cool Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo donated for the Visuino development :-). Unfortunately due to health issues, and work on Visuino, I was not able to finish posting all the assembly videos at the time :-(.

Finally now I have a chance to post all the remaining videos.

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

Step 4: Assemble The Baseplate

Step 5: Install The Legs

Step 6: Install The Arduino Control Board

Step 7: Install The Speakers

Here is the eighth Install the Side Panels

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I also have showed programming the Robot with Visuino and controlling it from Delphi Application:
Controlling Visuino Programmed Arduino Robots from Delphi Apps

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble the official version 1 Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 7: Install The Speakers

  Couple of years ago I received another Cool Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo donated for the Visuino development :-). Unfortunately due to health issues, and work on Visuino, I was not able to finish posting all the assembly videos at the time :-(.

Finally now I have a chance to post all the remaining videos.

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

Step 4: Assemble The Baseplate

Step 5: Install The Legs

Step 6: Install The Arduino Control Board

Here is the seventh Install The Speakers

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I also have showed programming the Robot with Visuino and controlling it from Delphi Application:
Controlling Visuino Programmed Arduino Robots from Delphi Apps

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble the official version 1 Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 6: Install The Arduino Control Board

 Couple of years ago I received another Cool Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo donated for the Visuino development :-). Unfortunately due to health issues, and work on Visuino, I was not able to finish posting all the assembly videos at the time :-(.

Finally now I have a chance to post all the remaining videos.

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

Step 4: Assemble The Baseplate

Step 5: Install The Legs

Here is the sixth Install The Arduino Control Board

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I also have showed programming the Robot with Visuino and controlling it from Delphi Application:
Controlling Visuino Programmed Arduino Robots from Delphi Apps

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Assemble the official version 1 Elegoo Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT Step 5: Assemble The Baseplate

Couple of years ago I received another Cool Penguin-Bot Arduino Robot KIT from Elegoo donated for the Visuino development :-). Unfortunately due to health issues, and work on Visuino, I was not able to finish posting all the assembly videos at the time :-(.
Finally now I have a chance to post all the remaining videos.

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

Step 4: Assemble The Baseplate

Here is the fifth Install The Legs

I am preparing the rest of the Assembly videos and will post them in the following days. I also have showed programming the Robot with Visuino and controlling it from Delphi Application:
Controlling Visuino Programmed Arduino Robots from Delphi Apps

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Elegoo #Robot #PenguinBot

Visuino at Maker Faire LA

Last Saturday I was presenting Visuino at the Maker Faire LA. The event was organized together with City of Stem and hosted at the Los Angeles State Historic Park :-)

Daniel Sidman also came and joined me at the booth helping me as volunteer, and I am very grateful for his help!

It was huge event, with tens of thousands of visitor, and it was extremely exhausting. I barely found time to snap few pictures between the visitors, and here are some of them:

Here are some pictures of the Visuino booth:

 

And some of the great neighbors :-)

Travis Hughes and Scarab: the Environmental Data Collection Robot:

Mandel Lum and his super cool "Flip a Table" project! :-)

And some pictures of the crowd! :-)

Altogether, it was a fantastic event, and I really enjoyed it! 

It was the first time I was presenting at a Maker Faire or any event of such huge size, and I made a lot of mistakes in preparing for it, but at the end it went better than I anticipated!

Looking forward to attending more fun events in the near future, and presenting Visuino to the excited crowd!