Sean Boerhout

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Inspiration PDB - Updates

Board updates!

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Inspiration PDB - Build

Time to build!

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Inspiration PDB - Design

College Applications are over!

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Modalai

ModalAI - a recap

This summer, I interned for ModalAI again, just like last year.

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OpenServo V1

OpenServo Cad!

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Summer learnings

Just a recap of some things I’ve been studying.

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Random

Coffee!

I like coffee now.

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Simple Variable Buck Converter

Yesterday I built a variable buck converter for fun. It allows you to vary an output voltage from about 12V to 3V or less using PWM.

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Modalai

ModalAI (Again!)

Last year was a lot of fun, so I’m back again!

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OpenServo V1

And so the problems come rolling in…

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OpenServo V1

A new era of motor controllers!

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Physics boat

After the AP Physics Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism exams, my physics class had a wooden boat building competition.

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Stuff I Learned about USB

USB communication is a standard in our daily lives with practically every computer and even microcontroller supporting some form of it. On my robotics team, I was asked to build a printed circuit

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Talking to an Arduino over Serial with Python

How to use the python serial library to talk to an arduino from your computer!

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Converting particle devices to circuit python

How to convert particle Xenon, Argon, and (theoretically) Boron devices to circuit python.

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OpenOCD for burning bootloaders

A short explanation on how to use openocd to program the bootloader of an atmega samd21.

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Quadruped

PID Ramblings

Just some random stuff on using PID controllers on my quadrupedal robot.

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Quadruped

Silicon Foot Mold

During winter break, I did some experimenting with using silicon as a material for making feet for my quadrupedal robot. As one might expect, making good contact with the ground is important while

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Quadruped

Quadruped Control Board V2.0

Ever since I started working on my quadruped, I knew that I wanted to make a ‘motherboard’ pcb for it. Version 1, a two layer board, came equiped with some great features:

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Programming

Updates Blog

I decided to make a new blog (don’t worry, this one isn’t going away!)

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Programming

Life 2.0 (Simulation)

Since learning how to program, I’ve always thought that it would be fun to make a nature simulation.

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Programming

Autoformer

At school, whenever entering the library in periods other than lunch, before school, or after school, it is necessary to fill out a google form for attendence. As someone who visits the library

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Quadruped

Stable Body Positioning

It’s time to jazz things up a little. Time to implement whole-body rotation and translation!

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Sensors

Complementary Filters for IMU Fusion

Let’s fuse sensors - simply!

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Modalai

ModalAI Internship

This summer I spent a ton of time at ModalAI, a company I interned for. It was awesome.

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Quadruped

Walking Development

Think • Code • Try • Fail (Repeat)

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Arduino

Python Tutorials

A learning opportunity… for everyone!

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Quadruped

Building the Robot!

Ready to see this thing finished?

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Quadruped

Control Board V1!

Goodbye sketchy electronics…

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Quadruped

Fixing Interpolation

My previous method for interpolating the foot position seemed great... but was it?

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Quadruped

IT... Y-axis Movement

Huh? Another degree of freedom? The Y-axis!

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Quadruped

Two axis!

Time to add a new degree of freedom!

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Quadruped

Adding interpolation!

Vertical translation calculations are working well, but I'm still not satisfied.

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Quadruped

Quadruped Robot Update 1!

Since last summer, I've been wanting to start on a fairly ambitious project: building a quadruped robot that can walk and do cool static movements. I didn't have much time to start back

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Arduino

Arduino Training Presentation

Over Thanksgiving break, I decided to put together a presentation displaying the basics of arduino programming for people in my Arduino Club who are new to this. The club was approved a mere

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Space Invaders

I stumbled across this sitting in my documents folder a couple days ago and I minus well post it. About 2 years ago I made a space invaders game using an Arduino Uno

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Random

2020 Top Books

Today is Daylights Savings day! Why not use your extra hour as reading time?

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Cnc

Developing my mini CNC machine

The Coronavirus quarantine period was a terrible time for many people, but I tried to use it to my advantage by completing something I hadn't had the time for: a mini CNC/milling machine.

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My First Post!

This is my first post on this new blog! I’ve never done any web development before, so this is going to be a cool chance to learn some new stuff! I’m hoping to

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