Assemble Elegoo Smart Car Robot KIT 2.0 Step 3: Installing the Motor Driver Board

Couple of months ago the great folks at Elegoo sent me a beautiful Robot Kit Version 1.0.
I already posted Assembly Instructions, and some tutorials on programming it.
Since then Elegoo introduced a newer and simpler to assemble 2.0 version, and the Elegoo folks just sent me this really beautiful Smart Car Robot KIT Version 2.0 donated for the Visuino development.
I already posted:
Unboxing video
Step 1: Assembling the Motors.
Step 2: Installing the Motors on the Chassis

Here is the third Assembly Video -  Installing the Motor Driver 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 Shield 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

Assemble Elegoo Smart Car Robot KIT 2.0 Step 2: Install the Motors on the Chassis

Couple of months ago the great folks at Elegoo sent me a beautiful Robot Kit Version 1.0.
I already posted Assembly Instructions, and some tutorials on programming it.
Since then Elegoo introduced a newer and simpler to assemble 2.0 version, and the Elegoo folks just sent me this really beautiful Smart Car Robot KIT Version 2.0 donated for the Visuino development.
I already posted Unboxing video for it, and few days ago I posted the first Assembly Video - Assembling the Motors.
Here is the second Assembly Video -  Installing the Motors on the Chassis:

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 Shield 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

Pictures and Videos from the Arduino Day in Los Angeles last Saturday

And I have finally found time to post the pictures from the Arduino Day in LA event last Saturday, and from my Visuino presentation.
The event was organized Hackerspace Los Angeles and was hosted in the Make in LA building.

The Make in LA space was great! As you can see, in addition to the dozens of 3D printers, and equipment, there was even a real fire truck in the room :-):

Preparing for the event:

Me at front of the Fire Truck :-) :

Jorge Cornejo and his toys:

Benny Estes presenting the Cayenne platform:

And one of the attendees using Visuino to program 2 Arduinos with LoRa Shields to send temperature readings from one to the other:

And here is a video recorded by one of the organizers, of me presenting Visuino:

And showing one of the attendees how to use it:

It was a great event, and I am looking forward to meet the Hackerspace Los Angeles people again :-)

#Visuino #Arduino

Cheers,

  Boian

Quick Delphi test of the CommunicationLab MQTT Component in Linux

This is a video of the first  test of the MQTT component from CommunicationLab in Linux.
So far seems to work well :-) - Console Application opening data module with the components:

The test was done with this version:
http://labpacks.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-first-delphi-102-tokyo-compatible.html

Will be doing more component tests and ports in the following days.

Cheers,
  Boian

#Delphi #OpenWire

Assemble Elegoo Smart Car Robot KIT 2.0 Step 1: Assemble the Motors

Couple of months ago the great folks at Elegoo sent me a beautiful Robot Kit Version 1.0.
I already posted Assembly Instructions, and some tutorials on programming it.
Since then Elegoo introduced a newer and simpler to assemble 2.0 version, and the Elegoo folks just sent me this really beautiful Smart Car Robot KIT Version 2.0 donated for the Visuino development.
I already posted Unboxing video for it, and promised Assembly videos.
Here is the first Assembly Video - Assembling the Motors:

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 Shield 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

Happy Arduino Day!

  Happy Arduino Day Everyone!

To celebrate, I will be at the Arduino Day in Los Angeles today, and will be doing short Visuino presentation :-)

Cheers,
  Boian

#Arduino

The first Delphi 10.2 Tokyo compatible port of most of the Mitov Software components with partial Linux, MAC and Android support is now available

Hello all of you Delphi, and C++ Builder fans out there,

This is updated version of the post!

I have just updated the Delphi and C++ Builder 10.2 Tokyo compatible installers with initial partial Linux port of large number of the components.

The latest update is available here:
http://labpacks.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-first-delphi-102-tokyo-compatible.html

The installers are only for 10.2 Tokyo, and have been tested with both Delphi and C++ Builder. I will be doing more tests in the coming days, and will be doing further improvements. I will also see to post installers for 10.0 Seattle, and 10.1 Berlin as well.

Cheers,

  Boian

#Delphi #OpenWire

Just received a new beautiful Smart Car robot kit Version 2.0 from Elegoo for the Visuino development!

Couple of months ago the great folks at Elegoo sent me a beautiful Robot Kit Version 1.0.
I already posted Assembly Instructions, and some tutorials on programming it.
Since then Elegoo introduced a newer and simpler to assemble 2.0 version, and the Elegoo folks just sent me this really beautiful Smart Car Robot KIT Version 2.0 donated for the Visuino development.
It arrived over the weekend, and I already have assembled it, and recorded some assembly videos. I even had a chance to do a basic implementation of the support for its shield in Visuino, and plan to add more features in the coming days.

My first impression is that the set is of very high quality! Also includes all the necessary tools for the assembly.

Nice box with handle, and well packed components:

I will post the unboxing video soon, so stay tuned ;-)

Yesterday received an ENC28J60 Ethernet module generously donated by Rafal Czachurski for the Visuino development!

Yesterday received this ENC28J60 Ethernet module generously donated by Rafal Czachurski for the Visuino development :-)

Thank you Rafal!

I am almost done with the Modbus development, so in the next 1-2 days, I should be able to get back to adding support for the modules that I received recently, including this one!

#Visuino #Arduino

Elegoo Bluetooth Controlled Arduino Robot with Visuino and Delphi article in the "Blaise Pascal Magazine"

My next Visuino and Delphi article has just been published in the "Blaise Pascal Magazine" http://www.blaisepascal.eu :

This is Part 1. It shows you how to program Elegoo Arduino Smart Car robot with Visuino to be controlled through Bluetooth Classic with HC-06 module.

In the following article I will also show you how to create Android App with Delphi to control the robot.

#Visuino #Arduino #Delphi

Yesterday received an Si4703 FM tuner module generously donated by Richard Toy for the Visuino development!

Yesterday received this Si4703 FM Tuner module generously donated by Richard Toy for the Visuino development :-)

Thank you Richard!

I am still overloaded with the Modbus development, but it is getting close to completion so in the next 2-3 days, I should be able to get back to adding support for the modules that I received recently, including this one!

#Visuino #Arduino

The "Build Something That Matters" Hackaday Unconference in Pasadena last Saturday

Last Saturday I was at the "Build Something That Matters" Hackaday Unconference in Pasadena .
It was a great and fun event, with a number of very interesting and inspirational speakers, and as customary for the Supplyframe Design Lab very good food.
Here are some of the pictures I took:

The gathering crowd:

Shulie (The organizer) opening the unconference:

And showing the ISS Above :

Present was also one of the Hackaday editors - Dan Maloney:

And here are some of the speakers:

No such event is complete without great food :-)

A lot of people stayed long after the event was over:

I met a lot of interesting people, and learned a lot in few hours, and even had a chance to make an 8 minute presentation of Visuino .

This was a great event, and I hope there will be many more like it in the coming years!

The very first Visuino Pro Beta version with Modbus support is now available!

Happy Pi Day everyone!

The very first Visuino Pro Beta version is now available in the Visuino community!

https://plus.google.com/communities/116125623808250792822

It includes Modbus Slave support, and allows easily to create Modbus SCADA enabled projects, turning your Arduinos into Modbus compatible PLCs .

Master Modbus support is also in development and should be available soon! :-)

To celebrate, I have also increased the time you can run the free Visuino versions to 10 minutes every time you run :-)

Cheers everyone,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino

Connecting the Battery and Installing the Antennas of the Kuman Robot

Recently I received this cool robot from Kuman donated for the Visuino development :-).

It has Remote WiFi control module, Camera, and 4 servos Manipulator.

The robot has 4 main parts that need to come together:

1. The Chassis
2. The Control and Wi-Fi boards
3. The Camera with its Pan and Tilt mount
4. The Manipulator

I already posted number of videos:

• Unboxing video - showing the robot coming out of the box
• how to assemble the Pan and Tilt Camera Mount
• how to install the Arduino, Motor Shield and the Servo Control Boards
• how to connect the Driving Motors to the Motor Shield, how to install the Camera on the Chassis
• how to install the Manipulator on the Chassis
• how to install the Rechargeable Battery
• how to connect the USB cables between the camera and the boards
• and how to connect the Camera Mount and the Manipulator Servos to the Servo Control board

Here is the last Assembly video showing how to connect the Battery and Install the Antennas:

I have also started working on programming the robot with Visuino, and Visuino already has support for the Motor Driver Shield used in the Robot;

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino

Delphi and Visuino sources for the "Program Bluetooth Remote Controlled Arduino Smart Car Robot" video tutorial

Here are the Delphi and Visuino sources for the "Program Bluetooth Remote Controlled Arduino Smart Car Robot" video tutorial that I posted recently.

http://www.mitov.com/DelphiAndroidBluetoothElegooRobotControl.zip

The zip contains both projects in separated directories.

Here are also instructions on how to assemble the robot kit:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Assemble-Elegoo-Smart-Car-Robot-Kit/

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Delphi

Delphi and Visuino sources for the "Arduino 101 Bluetooth LE Remote Control from Android" video tutorial

Here are the Delphi and Visuino sources for the "Arduino 101 Bluetooth LE Remote Control from Android" video tutorial that I posted recently.

http://www.mitov.com/DelphiArduino101BLE.zip

The zip contains both projects in separated directories.

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Delphi

Yesterday received an INA219 module generously donated by Edap Pl for the Visuino development!

Yesterday received this INA219 module generously donated by Edap Pl for the Visuino development :-)

Thank you Edap pl!

I am still overloaded with the Modbus development, but it is getting close to completion so in the next 2-3 days, I should be able to get back to adding support for the modules that I received recently, including this one!

Update: Here is the component already working in Visuino :-) :

#Visuino #Arduino

Connecting the Camera Mount and the Manipulator Servos of the Kuman Robot

Recently I received this cool robot from Kuman donated for the Visuino development :-).

It has Remote WiFi control module, Camera, and 4 servos Manipulator.

The robot has 4 main parts that need to come together:

1. The Chassis
2. The Control and Wi-Fi boards
3. The Camera with its Pan and Tilt mount
4. The Manipulator

I already posted number of videos:

• Unboxing video - showing the robot coming out of the box, 
• how to assemble the Pan and Tilt Camera Mount, 
• how to install the Arduino, Motor Shield and the Servo Control Boards, 
• how to connect the Driving Motors to the Motor Shield, how to install the Camera on the Chassis, 
• how to install the Manipulator on the Chassis,
• how to install the Rechargeable Battery
• and how to connect the USB cables between the camera and the boards

Here is the next Assembly video showing how to connect the Camera Mount and the Manipulator Servos to the Servo Control board:

I am processing the recorded videos of the rest of the assembly, and will post them soon :-).

I have also started working on programming the robot with Visuino, and Visuino already has support for the Motor Driver Shield used in the Robot;

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino

Yesterday received SparkFun nRF52832 from Cisco Garcia for the Visuino development!

Yesterday arrived another cool Microcontroller - SparkFun nRF52832 and SparkFun Beefy 3 - FTDI USB To Serial donated by Cisco Garcia for the Visuino development! Thank you Cisco!
It supports Bluetooth low energy (BLE), ANT, and Nordic’s proprietary 2.4GHz ultra low-power wireless communication – it even features on-chip NFC tag support!

I am still quite overloaded with adding Modbus support to Visuino, but I will try to add at least partial support for the module in the next few days :-)

#Visuino #Arduino

Connecting the USB cables of the Kuman Robot

Recently I received this cool robot from Kuman donated for the Visuino development :-).

It has Remote WiFi control module, Camera, and 4 servos Manipulator.

The robot has 4 main parts that need to come together:

1. The Chassis
2. The Control and Wi-Fi boards
3. The Camera with its Pan and Tilt mount
4. The Manipulator

I already posted number of videos:

• Unboxing video - showing the robot coming out of the box, 
• how to assemble the Pan and Tilt Camera Mount, 
• how to install the Arduino, Motor Shield and the Servo Control Boards, 
• how to connect the Driving Motors to the Motor Shield, how to install the Camera on the Chassis, 
• how to install the Manipulator on the Chassis,
• and how to install the Rechargeable Battery

Here is the next Assembly video showing how to connect the USB cables between the camera and the boards :

I am processing the recorded videos of the rest of the assembly, and will post them soon :-).

I have also started working on programming the robot with Visuino, and Visuino already has support for the Motor Driver Shield used in the Robot;

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino

The first combined installer for all of the Mitov Software libraries - MegaLab is now available

For long time I have been asked if I can create a single install for all of the Mitov Software libraries.
Finally I have found some time to create and test such installer called Mega Lab, and here is the first publicly available Delphi/C++ Builder/RAD Studio version:

http://www.mitov.com/MegaLab_VCL_7.8.2.130.zip

I hope you will enjoy it! :-)

Cheers,

  Boian

#Delphi #OpenWire

Installing the Rechargeable Battery on the Kuman Robot

Recently I received this cool robot from Kuman donated for the Visuino development :-).

It has Remote WiFi control module, Camera, and 4 servos Manipulator.

The robot has 4 main parts that need to come together:

1. The Chassis
2. The Control and Wi-Fi boards
3. The Camera with its Pan and Tilt mount
4. The Manipulator

I already posted Unboxing video - showing the robot coming out of the box, how to assemble the Pan and Tilt Camera Mount, how to install the Arduino, Motor Shield and the Servo Control Boards, how to connect the Driving Motors to the Motor Shield, how to install the Camera on the Chassis, and how to install the Manipulator on the Chassis.
Here is the next Assembly video showing  how to install the Rechargeable Battery:

I am processing the recorded videos of the rest of the assembly, and will post them soon :-). After that, I will start working on programming the robot with Visuino.

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino

Source code for my 4th "Artificial Intelligence with Delphi" article in the Blaise Pascal Magazine

My 4th Artificial Intelligence article is now published in the latest Blaise Pascal Magazine. 

Here is the source code of the article's projects:

http://www.mitov.com/PascalMagazineSimpleOCRTutorials.zip

In the article I used the latest IntelligenceLab features, added recently. They are not available in the official IntelligenceLab release, 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/2017/01/partial-port-of-most-of-mitov-software.html

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

Stay tuned for more articles in Artificial Intelligence, Visuino and more :-)

#Delphi #OpenWire

The Delphi projects I created for Day 1 and and Day 2 of the IoT Boot Camp

  Hello Everyone,

Here are the Delphi projects I created for Day 1 and and Day 2 of the IoT Boot Camp organized by Mitov Software and Embarcadero:

http://www.mitov.com/IoTBootCamp_2017_DelphiProjects.zip



You can download the projects and open them in Delphi.

Here are also the Visuino projects that I posted few days ago:
http://www.mitov.com/BootCamp_2017_VisuinoProjects.zip

You can download the projects and open them in Visuino.

Replay of the IoT Bootcamp is already available here!

I hope you all enjoy the IoT Bootcamp!

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Delphi

Happy Delphi and Valentine's day everyone!

Happy Delphi and Valentine's day everyone!
From me and from Visuino - An application with Delphi at its hearth:

Happy 22 Years of Delphi! What an exciting ride it has been... :-)

#Delphi

Installing the Manipulator on the Kuman Robot

Recently I received this cool robot from Kuman donated for the Visuino development :-).

It has Remote WiFi control module, Camera, and 4 servos Manipulator.

The robot has 4 main parts that need to come together:

1. The Chassis
2. The Control and Wi-Fi boards
3. The Camera with its Pan and Tilt mount
4. The Manipulator

I already posted Unboxing video - showing the robot coming out of the box, how to assemble the Pan and Tilt Camera Mount, how to install the Arduino, Motor Shield and the Servo Control Boards, how to connect the Driving Motors to the Motor Shield, and how to install the Camera on the Chassis.
Here is the next Assembly video, showing how to install the Manipulator on the Chassis :

I am processing the recorded videos of the rest of the assembly, and will post them soon :-). After that, I will start working on programming the robot with Visuino.

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino

The Visuino projects I created for Day 1 and and Day 2 of the IoT Boot Camp

  Hello Everyone,

Here are the Visuino projects I created for Day 1 and and Day 2 of the IoT Boot Camp organized by Mitov Software and Embarcadero:

http://www.mitov.com/BootCamp_2017_VisuinoProjects.zip

You can download the projects and open them in Visuino.

Replay of the IoT Bootcamp is already available here!

I hope you all enjoy the IoT Bootcamp!

Cheers,
  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino #Delphi

Installing the Wi-Fi Camera on the Kuman Robot

Recently I received this cool robot from Kuman donated for the Visuino development :-).

It has Remote WiFi control module, Camera, and 4 servos Manipulator.

The robot has 4 main parts that need to come together:

1. The Chassis
2. The Control and Wi-Fi boards
3. The Camera with its Pan and Tilt mount
4. The Manipulator

I already posted Unboxing video - showing the robot coming out of the box, how to assemble the Pan and Tilt Camera Mount, how to install the Arduino, Motor Shield and the Servo Control Boards, and how to connect the Driving Motors to the Motor Shield.

Here is the next Assembly video, showing how to install the Camera on the Chassis:

I am processing the recorded videos of the rest of the assembly, and will post them soon :-). After that, I will start working on programming the robot with Visuino.

Cheers,

  Boian

#Visuino #Arduino

Just received an AD9850 DSS Signal Generator Module a gift for the Visuino development by Adrian Gall!

Just received another module donated by Adrian Gall for the Visuino development! An AD9850 DSS Signal Generator Module.
Thank you Adrian Gall for your persistent, and generous support for the development!

He even sent a SSD with resources on the module:

I am looking forward to work on adding support for this module in Visuino, as few people have already asked for this.

#Visuino #Arduino