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Good news: latest coil is 3x more powerful. Bad news: it consumed enough juice to fry my $90 motor controller. Trying new design today. 6:12 AM Nov 13th from Seesmic
Argh, looks like I caught a twitter virus. Please don't click on any of the links related to NBA championship or gameshows. 4:48 AM Nov 10th from web
Electromagnetic coil motor works! This 8.5" x 2" diameter coil moves a steel bar as plunger: http://bit.ly/2iuZCd 5:08 AM Nov 9th from Seesmic
The coil is complete now http://twitpic.com/oeo37 2:30 PM Nov 5th from TweetDeck
Busy making a very large electromagnet today. 8:14 AM Nov 5th from Seesmic
Thanks @derekpokora @JudeThinks @iketches for RTs & comments on the #robot gripper. @derekpokora I'm happy to chat about arduino anytime! 10:02 AM Oct 31st from Seesmic
My robot arm uses a sensor to grasp a variety of delicate objects: http://is.gd/4Iwno Even grabs eggs: http://is.gd/4Iwlo 1:24 PM Oct 30th from Seesmic
Robot gripper meets an apple: http://bit.ly/7eONP 4:29 AM Oct 28th from Seesmic
This skiing robot is pretty interesting: http://bit.ly/ktA6n 7:02 AM Oct 23rd from Seesmic
@jmatear Sure, lets set up a time next week to give it a shot. 5:24 AM Oct 23rd from Seesmic in reply to jmatear
Second robot arm assembled now: http://twitpic.com/mh1w6 7:56 AM Oct 22nd from TweetDeck
Robot control via iPhone now working too, nice! 12:03 PM Oct 20th from Seesmic
@chayday True, though I won't try picking up eggs with the robot arm (or shaking hands with it) just yet. 9:14 AM Oct 20th from Seesmic in reply to chayday
This is what my pen looked like after the robot arm picked it up: http://twitpic.com/m6vqd 5:51 PM Oct 19th from TweetDeck
Hurray, the old merc started and ran for about 2min today! Wasn't firing on all cylinders tho. Next step: new spark plugs & wires. 2:27 PM Oct 7th from TweetDeck
Merc had a fuel pump issue, so took it off & fixed it. Engine briefly fired up then quit. Charging battery, and will try again tomorrow. 12:20 PM Oct 6th from TweetDeck
@jmatear thanks for the offer :) hopefully no more fried circuits today. 5:53 AM Oct 6th from TweetDeck in reply to jmatear
My first attempt to build a motor controller is a flop. Smoke came out of my circuit board. Time to call it a day. 2:52 PM Oct 5th from TweetDeck
More progress on the merc. Fuel leak solved and fixed broken wire near distributor. Now charging battery. Will try starting again soon. 2:06 PM Oct 4th from TweetDeck
Engine turns over on the Mercury, so not seized after all. May get this old car running yet this year. 4:28 AM Oct 4th from TweetDeck

Name Alan Majer
Location iPhone: 43.642540,-79.421967
Web http://web.goodro...
Bio I build telepresence robots. Interested in remote sensing, internet control, actuation, monitoring or prototypes? I can deliver a custom solution. Test me!