DORA stands for Dora Opensource Robot Assistant, which is a recursive name. DORA project is a OSHW(Open Source Hardware) project that aims at bring family-affordable personal robot assistant to life by 2027. The robot should be human-scale, and do real human jobs such as cooking or washing dishes. The name was inspired by a Japanese cartoon character Doraemon, who is a robotic cat manufactured in Sept. 3rd, 2112. |
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Hao gave a speech at "The Future is Robotics" BASE meetup
Hao gave his speech "The Future Is Opensource Robotics" last night at Bay Area Software Engineer (BASE) meetup in front of almost 300 attendances. The topic of this meetup is ...
Posted Sep 19, 2012, 6:30 PM by Hao Zhang
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We made finalist in Jack Daniel's Independence Challenge!
Here's the link to all finalists:http://www.instructables.com/contest/independence/?show=FINALISTSAnd here's the link to our entry:http://www.instructables.com/id/Brain-Controlled ...
Posted Sep 11, 2012, 1:34 PM by Hao Zhang
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DoraBot has a new working arm!
Hao got the arm working (5 out of 6 DOF, thanks to Jake's help in stepper driver), so here's the video on how exiting DoraBot becomes when he ...
Posted Aug 28, 2012, 10:09 AM by Hao Zhang
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McHawking will be on Discovery Science next year
The EEG control was pretty good, steve from Puzzlebox Brainstorm has been working on how to use brain to control various stuff for years, and has successfully controlled stuff like ...
Posted Aug 22, 2012, 3:41 PM by Hao Zhang
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Fried Stepper Driver
Hao burned Stepper motor Driver v1.2 today, by turning the current adjust resistor too low. A high current goes through L298N and releases the magic smell. Stupid mistake!Post ...
Posted Aug 18, 2012, 1:18 AM by Hao Zhang
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