Saturday, August 13, 2016

Programming #drones at LearnOBots

Since my childhood I've been fascinated with gadgets, technology and toys. I'm now realizing this passion at my startup LearnOBots. This weekend kids at LearnOBots are programming quadcopters or drones as they are usually called. This is something that you will usually not find happening anywhere in the world. Kids aged between 10 and 13 learning to program and fly drones! If you don't believe it have a look at the following facebook post and youtube video.

https://www.facebook.com/learnobots/videos/510435125816609/


Friday, August 5, 2016

Updating EMIC2 text to speech library for Arduino

Recently I've been working in using the EMIC2 text to speech module for one of my robots. I wanted to use it with a speech recognition module by elechouse on an Arduino. The ideas was very simple, use speech recognition to interact with the robot and let it speak using EMIC2. The trouble was both use SoftwareSerial library which was causing my program to crash. In order to fix the problem I updated the EMIC2 library to work with hardware serial port of Atmega2560. The updated library can be downloaded form my github account. All original examples have been updated to work with the new library as well.