If you’ve worked on robotics projects, chances are someone has mentioned ROS (Robot Operating System). And if you’re anything like me, you’re always eager to try out shiny new tools. When we start...

Electric And Electronic System Introduction For Newton’s electrical and electronic systems, the objective is to make the system as simple as possible: using off-the-shelf and cheap parts, allowing...

Mapping the Future Introduction Newton’s journey to becoming the bestest of boys passes through vision. In this post, we focus on Newton’s sight– a key enabler for autonomous navigation. There are...

TWIP: The End of An Era Before diving into building Newton, our robot dog, we started building TWIP, a Two-Wheeled Inverted Pendulum robot, designed and ideated by gym2real, a Capstone team, in the...

Cycloidal Drive An exercise into a more accessible actuator design for the modified Solo12 Solo12 has a very compact and lightweight design which imposes dimensional constraints on the choice...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step Last Thursday, we took a big step. It was the first tryout of our project. We were filled with emotions, anticipation, and a little bit of ...

Welcome to our bi-weekly blog! Our goal with this blog is to keep a log of how things are going for our Capstone project (every ~2 weeks), so in this introductory post, I’ll introduce the team mem...