New Techgarage Tables

Since Techgarage started we have been using the same plastic picnic tables to do all of our work. That just wasn’t optimal or right, while the people working at Techgarage are kids they are also engineers and engineers deserve a nice spacious workspace. So for this RDL season, we decided to create our own inexpensive […]

Slidemap V10.1 Frame Done!

I spent about two hours today assembling the rest of the linear actuators. I obviously couldn’t attach stepper motors because I am still trying to find ones that will work well but I was able to get it all mechanically sound. I also still need a few rods for the z-axis but those can wait […]

Slidemap v10.1 Linear Actuator(Working!)

I headed over to Techgarage today with my limited time and worked on assembling the first linear actuator for Slidemap v10.1 because the parts came in. I built it quickly which was good and I realized that my design has very easy access to all screws and holes which will be extremely useful when I […]

Mozilla IoT Framework complete!

After three long days of work, the framework and API is finally complete. Today I restarted my code from scratch with the fresh thoughts I had to work from. I knew I needed to run the device server in a thread. It took a bit of tinkering but I finally figured out why that error […]

Mozilla IoT Troubleshooting

Headaches, Headaches, and more Headaches After trying to open up the socket connection and send data back to the Unity code I quickly ran into… Headaches. First whatever package Mozilla used in their example completely blocked me out from using sockets while their code was running so I couldn’t actually send data back once the […]

Mozilla IoT with Unity

Last time I worked on this project I concluded that I needed to use a Raspberry Pi as a proxy that communicated with Unity and created the devices. To get this working I created a Unity tag that is labeled UnityLight. I wrote a script that then searches through all the GameObjects and finds […]

Part Sorter Using Google Coral

We’ve been fantasizing about this project for the last three years. Techgarage seems to create hundreds and hundreds of random parts at random locations and we need a way to sort all of them. Typically we do it by hand using a bit of labor but its just to slow and Techagarage still looks like […]

Mozilla IoT for RDL

IoT which stands for the Internet of Things is an elusive term that I never really bothered with understanding. I thought it was just the general term used by non-engineers to describe how everything was connected… Oh, how I was wrong. As part of the design process for RDL or Robot Drone League game, we […]

Slidemap V10.1 Linear Actuator(Sort of)

I decided to pop into Techgarage for an hour or two today and start taking apart V10. However, I quickly got sidetracked and began to create a prototype linear actuator based off of my CAD design from yesterday. Like I said before the main goal of these linear actuators is to a create a compact […]

Introducing Techgarage Summer Camp

Techgarage summer camp is finally a thing! FAU Highschool gave us their highschool space for four weeks to let us do a tech summer camp. 5257 ERX members acted as counselors and helped teach the campers in the program how to build robots.