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How: To drive a wheelchair with your eyes (Generation 2)

In my previous post, I covered how Microsoft found the motivation to help create technology for people living with ALS and how we started our first project: creating a wheelchair you can drive with your eyes. Now let's look at how we do it and what's next. I'm describing a

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Quick diversion: how to use ngx-queue

In my last blog post, I noted that I was working on Reflecta which is a communications protocol for talking from a PC to an Arduino. I also alluded to the fact that I was using Reflecta from nodejs. When I controlled RocketBot during Maker Faire, the logic was half

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Much work on RocketBot and Reflecta

I've been busy updating the source code and design documentation for Rocket Bot. You can now find: Design files for the base plates, pneumatic system, and electronics on Github. Source code for the Arduino libraries that control the Drive Base and Rocket Platform. Source code for the communications protocol (Reflecta)