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This demo was completed a last year and is featured on our home page. Follow the link to see a demonstration of the FREE module in a faux kitchen setting. https://youtu.be/gT5bpmcvvNI

The lab took a trip to Michigan University last weekend to meet up with our partners and tour the school. Among other things, we got to see a demo of the Cassie biped robot that Michigan has been working on a controller for. https://youtu.be/_mGemyJX8Z4

Back in the lab today. I was recording some more data on the now shortened FREE module and came across a couple problems. First, the software I was using to plot the points did not allow me to change the scale of the axes, so the scatter plot looks flat no matter what. I switched…

The other day I was taking videos of the FREE module to analyze in Tracker, I went up to 15 PSI like I had been doing, and I accidentally popped one…Fortunately it popped at the end so I could cut off the broken part and just make the whole module shorter. Though I didn’t finish…

Our current focus is trying to create a video demonstration of FREE rotation by having one solve a combination lock. Meanwhile, I have been gathering positional data on our 70 degree wrapped four-FREE module. My lab partner Ryan is working on getting a camera working for live motion tracking, but until then I’m using a…

This blog lets you keep up to date about the progress we have made and the daily goings on in the lab. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out through email or by sending us a message from the home page.