Welcome to the Electromaker Show episode 61! This week we are giving away a MyCobot Pi, one of the coolest robot arms I’ve ever tried! We also talk about the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Astro Pi challenge, some fantastic things from funding websites, and a paint-flinging Arduino Robot!

Tune in for the latest maker, tech, DIY, IoT, embedded, and crowdfunding news stories from the week!

The MyCobot Pi is available from Elephant Robotics: https://shop.elephantrobotics.com/collections/mycobot/products/mycobot-pi-worlds-smallest-and-lightest-six-axis-collaborative-robot

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▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Intro: 00:00
The famous Quake 1 flicker in hardware: 00:31
Flingbot! Arduino painting machine: 03:11
Raspad Prizewinner: 05:11
OpenCV AI Kit Lite on Kickstarter: 08:59
Roendi – An open source rotary encoder with programmable digital display: 12:39
CircuitMess Batmobile coming soon: 13:44
MyCobot Competition: 16:05
The Raspberry Pi Astro Pi Challenge Returns! 26:10

▬ Show references and links ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
– The famous Quake 1 flicker in hardware: https://hackaday.com/2021/09/21/bringing-the-quake-flicker-to-life-with-a-hacked-light/
– Flingbot! Arduino painting machine: https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/09/20/flingbot-is-a-robot-that-flings-paint-at-a-canvas/
– OpenCV AI Kit Lite on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/opencv/opencv-ai-kit-oak-depth-camera-4k-cv-edge-object-detection
– Roendi – An open source rotary encoder with programmable digital display https://www.crowdsupply.com/xtech/roendi
– CircuitMess Batmobile coming soon: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6836663520776474624/
– The Raspberry Pi Astro Pi Challenge Returns! https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/astro-pi-2021-news-rocket-launch-hardware/

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22 Comments

  1. Love to see this #mycobotpi , Interesting build and amazing technology.
    I will love to make a assistant arm for soldering with computer vision.
    Btw interesting and knowledgeable video
    #mycobotpi

  2. #mycobotpi
    #Project #Title: AI Based Smart Robotic Arm Assistant for Disable Persons in Retail Stores, shopping malls and Grocery Stores
    #Description:
    #Problem:
    It is observed that while shopping in a retail stores a Disable Person on the wheel chair faces many problems for picking a retail product from shelves and put it in his/her wheel chair shopping cart. The retail products which are placed/decorated on the most top shelves are not approachable for disable persons. Disable person always depends on other customers/people as they always ask someone to pick and place Retail Products for him/her which makes him/her feel uncomfortable, inferiority and helpless sometimes.
    #Keywords:
    Wheel Chair Grocery Shopping Struggles, they can’t do that in wheel chair.
    #Solution:
    An Object detection and localization based robotic arm system which can detect and localized retail products decorated on the most top shelves (Not approachable shelves for disable person) and provide Pick and Drop services to a disable person. The wheel chairs will be equipped with the OAK – D, robotic arm and the whole system.
    I have OpenCV AI Kit with Depth (OAK-D) and OAK – D – IoT – 40 also. I will configure this #mycobotpi robotic arm with these kits. Link of OAK D Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YL2O-KXWSw

    #Project #Tools:
    #Software #Tools:
    Python, Depthai, ROS2, OpenCV, OpenVino Toolkit, Yolov4 Tiny or dtectron2, PyQt5
    #Hardware #Tools:
    OpenCV AI Kit with Depth (OAK – D), Raspberry Pi , #mycobotpi Robotic Arm, Wheel Chair, Shopping Cart, Portable Screen for Dashboard

    #Note: An object detection (Retail Products detection Model) has been trained with Detectron2. It can detect 8 classes of Retail products: –
    #Prototype #Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e_71ZopR1U
    #mycobotpi Robotic Arm will pic and place these objects from retail shelves.
    We will Optimize this model with OpenVino Tool kit for Deployment to Obtained Object spatial coordinates using DepthAI Pipeline for #mycobotpi Robotic Arm assistance.
    #mycobotpi

  3. I would like to use MyCobot for my machine vision urban gardening project. I am trying to make a robot which will identify/remove pests from the plants. Also, the robot would be able to take various measurements from the different parts of the plant/soil for which a flexible robotic hand would be a nice addition. I hope to win this. #mycobotpi

  4. well its looking quite interesting and amazing, are loving and hoping to gets our hand dirty on this super amazing and super cool bot.
    #mycobotpi

  5. I always wanted to make a personal "arm assistant" powered by computer vision techniques that can help me with work or will simply give me the joy of making something special. And I think MyCobot Pi will be the perfect tool to achieve that goal. Excited to enter this giveaway and hope to win, fingers crossed.
    #mycobotpi

  6. If I won the My Cobot Pi, I would use it as a feeding machine. I have extremely limited use of my arms and hands, so I use a feeding machine to help me eat. Currently I use a 4-DoF arm that I modified using a 3d printer to hold a spoon and then programmed a little python web server for controlling it. It would be nice to have a 6-DoF arm instead. And it would also allow me to use more than just a spoon if I choose to use both arms at the same time. Specialized feeding machines are way too expensive for what they are and I'm always on the lookout for ways to make cheaper alternatives. If I had a MyCobotPi, I would 3d print the necessary modification and write the code then freely share the 3d model and code for anyone to use so instead of paying $5,000 or more for a feeding machine, they could just spend $700 on My Cobot Pi plus maybe $300 for a 3d printer if they don't have someone who could print it for them. #mycobotpi

  7. This is amazing.
    I would use this #mycobotpi as my personal butler,
    maybe flip off someone from time to time or scare off the junkies that chill outside of my home with my robot arm

  8. Great competition/giveaway. I would definitely use it together with my son for his STEM project he needs to finish before the end of the year. We were thinking of making a coin sorter, controlled by an Arduino or RPi, but how cool would it be if we could let the robot pick out the coins and deposit them in the correct tray… #mycobotpi

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