This is my first original robot design. I have built robots before, but I’ve never designed one entirely myself. The purpose of this robot is to be an affordable, expandable, customizable, and educational robotics platform. The design utilizes common hardware and easy to print parts to balance itself on 2 wheels. The rest of the […]
I made this, because it is my belief that all pet cats should have a pet robot. In all seriousness, I made this as an occasional treat for the cats, or more for me when I need to distract them for 15 minutes. Most of the hard work went into the programming. I tried to […]
appIOsc I recently collaborated with Shawn Lawson and Ryan Ross Smith on an open source device to convert analog signal voltages to wifi signals and vice versa. Sounds exciting right? It is actually more exciting than it sounds. Ryan and Shawn participate in Live Coding for both music and visual performance. And this latest Arduino project that I […]
This is a device that I put a lot of effort into, and it is still a work in progress. I spent months assembling hardware, and almost a year writing the program. After launching an instructable on how to assemble it, as well as publishing a github repository to share the code and invite collaboration, […]
Built an 8 channel controller for holiday lighting that I then installed in the ’86 field at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for the weR lighting ceremony. Was a fun project and I hope to develop the code further as well as construct a 16 channel version. Here is a video showing inside the box before everything […]
AuraFlora (AFB1) an interactive or “robotic” flower. AuraFlora Beta 1 is a scaled down version of AuraFlora for development purposes. The micro controller is an Arduino Uno R3. The purpose of this device is to be a first prototype for AuraFlora, and provide a platform on which to develop code. AF B1 has […]
After earning the RPI Computer Science Award Scholarship from HVCC, I have successfully transferred and begun taking courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute which will earn me a Bachelors of Science in EMAC – or Electronic Media, Art, and Communication with a Minor in Computer Science. I’m pretty excited to have the opportunity to attend one […]
I’ve finally completed the Lynda.com course on Android Application Development! First Apps coming soon! Frank Appio