My name is Adam Vadala Roth I am a robotics engineering student at WPI. On this blog I will discuss various projects I am working on as a way to share what I am doing with the robotics community. A little not the AVR in the title is my initials not a reference to the Atmel AVR microcontroller platform although I will be making extensive use of their chips for most of my projects. Moving onto current events, this summer I am interning at Neuron Robotics a company founded by WPI alumni who's goal is to provide provide effective robotics education and development hardware to everyday people.
While at Neuron Robotics I will be developing software for their DyIO platform amongst other software and hardware projects. The DyIO stands for "Dynamic Input and Output" the device enables users with a free USB port on their personal computer to control motors, actuators, and collect sensor data without having to do all the dirty work of low level programming, instead users can write programs on their computer in Java using the open source SDK for the DyIO.
The first project I am working on is software that will allow the DyIO to be used as a controller for a Fab@Home Cartesian Box 3D Printer. This project will be a great demonstration of the DyIO's versatility as well as provide an example solution for an affordable highly functional Fab@Home 3D printer. Although the project is dealing with the Cartesian Box the code will be open source and using a different printer will be as easy as a firmware update to the DyIO.
