PhilRobotics

While our firmware team is busy reorganizing the firmware library for the Anito Development board, Yus ported the current Anito IDE for STM32F1 with ARM GCC Toolchain. More Information can be found at the forum. The unsupported version of the IDE can be downloaded from Philrobotics-Projects Page.  

With the successful build of the PhilRoboKit IDE on Windows and Linux, a Mac OS version is now under deveopment to cater Mac users. For the mean time, latest builds of the IDE can be downloaded from Windows Host (32 bit and 64 bit) Ubuntu 32 Bit Ubuntu 64 Bit Visit the forum for further [...]

We usually encounter coin validators in our everyday life, vendo machine in the canteen or the train station ticket dispenser. So how do these machines know what we put? This video show us the output of a multi coin validator bought from e-Gizmo

The SIM900 is a cheap GSM/GPRS module to interface your projects to GSM networks to access your device remotely via SMS. Martin show us the basic things we need to get started with the e-Gizmo SIM900 GSM/GPRS module.

The Philrobokit IDE is written in Python and uses the Hi-TECH C lite version for the compiler. The IDE features a serial monitor that has support for sending raw hexadecimal digits, find as you type, code folding, line numbers and produces more info at compilation. The latest snapshot build has the support for loading tiny [...]

The Philrobokit Anito Board can be purchased in kit form or assembled form at e-Gizmo. When you get the anito board in kit form, this quickstart video is your guide in assembling and testing your Philrobokit Anito development board. Schematic diagram and parts placement can be downloaded from here Join the discussions at the forum for [...]

PhilRobokit Anito is an Arduino inspired collaborated project of PhilRobotics. Anito is the beta version based on PIC16F877a, It contains 4 LED’s, 2 switches, 1 buzzer and 1 Servo port. It is designed that a user can experiment with the basics of microcontroller as soon as the board is powered up. Anito comes with an [...]

This month’s Philrobotics event will cover basic MOBOT programming using Arduino and P-bot Mobile Robot Platform and will be held on October 22, 2011 to be facilitated by Mr. Noel Bautista (Macgyver).  This is a sequel of the Basic Mobot Building (Arduino Based), this month we will cover basic MOBOT categories such as line following, [...]

The serial port on our computers are with us for quite sometime now. It is more favored than the parallel port for interfacing with the outside world because it require lesser wires and can go farther distance and can even be used with newer technologies such as Bluetooth using its serial port capability. In this [...]

Getting started with mobile robots, we definitely need a platform where we can fit the electronics of our robot and make it move. In this tutorial we will be making a cheap mobile robot platform from a toy commonly called a tumbling car here in the Philippines. It can be bought almost anywhere specially on [...]