Swarmbuddies

NarwhalEdu Swarmbuddies - formation demo

Our team

The NarwhalEdu team, with summer interns - Nancy and Cappie are MIT Class of 2013 mechanical engineers and co-founders of NarwhalEdu. - Will Kalb and June Kim are current MIT undergraduates helping us out over the summer. - Will Long, Pablo Fiori, and Chris Aring are high school students hanging out with us over the summer making sweet apps, demos, and videos.

Demos

Point 'n click

NarwhalEdu Swarmbuddies - Single robot interactive (point ‘n click) control, demo programmed by our intern Will Kalb

Smartphone Control

NarwhalEdu Swarmbuddies - Smartphone Control (android), demo as programmed by me, and ported to iOS by Chris Aring.

Rectangle with overhead tracking feedback controller

NarwhalEdu Swarmbuddies - Single robot tracing out a rectangle, demo by Will Kalb and Cappie Pomeroy.

Triangle with overhead tracking feedback controller

NarwhalEdu Swarmbuddies - Single robot tracing out a triangle. (Title is shaking because video was stabilized). Demo by Will Kalb and Cappie Pomeroy.

Other Info

Kickstarter

Our kickstarter was a Staff Pick. - Swarmbuddy robots, with wireless control and RGB lighting


Electrical engineering

I designed and fabricated our boards in Diptrace, as well as wrote the firmware - I designed and fabricated the Atmega-based stepper control boards


Mechanical engineering

June Kim served as our mechanical engineer extraordinaire - Caps as designed by our intern June Kim - Diagram as made by our intern June Kim


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