Sunday, June 13, 2021

Pocket Penguin

Pocket Penguin
Pocket Penguin – Cute, Functional and Fits a Pocket!

by Humanoido
Hack your way to cuteness. The Pocket Penguin, conceived by Humanoido, appeared in the Premier Issue of Penguin Tech Magazine.

Build your own cute Pocket Penguin with a rubber band. Fold the main board over on top of the speaker. The mechanical chassis is removed. Works with PING ultrasonic eyes (shown at left).

Show off this tiny robot! Most people will think Pocket Penguin, a stripped down hack to the full Parallax Penguin Robot, is the cat’s pajamas! This is the smallest configuration of Penguin using the two boards and an optional PING))) ultrasonic sensor. Pocket Penguin was born for several reasons:

* It functions without bulky mechanics
* It’s shirt pocket portable
* It consumes less battery power
* IR, optical, ultrasonic, sound, music, display, compass, AI, Virtual Reality!
* It uses the most powerful "single core processor" offered by Parallax  

Building a Pocket Penguin is a piece of cake! Just remove the two boards and connect together as shown with a single rubber band. The only adjustment is to mount the top board at a slight angle so the piezo speaker will have good volume. Think of some application ideas? How about a pocket Jukebox, night vision ranger, event timer, Penguinese talker, morse code sender, theremin musical instrument, digital compass pathfinder, and code within the new dimension of Virtual Reality!

Pocket Penguin Recommended Code
  • pocket jukebox
  • night vision ranger
  • event timer
  • penguinese talker
  • morse code sender
  • theremin musical instrument
  • digital compass pathfinder
  • suite of virtual reality code
In this configuration, the mechanics are removed and the boards are used for programming sound features using the piezo speaker. When it's switched on, there's no servo movement or tilt and stride to adjust with mechanics to achieve a centered position. The batteries last even longer when two servos are disconnected. So you are looking at my development penguin for writing sound programs. There are many applications for these tiny Penguin robotic controller boards.  ●

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