Rei Vilo
I'm a finance executive with a manufacturing company. My hobbies include robotics, among others. I'm not an engineer!
How did your interest in robots /
robotics start?
Actually, I discovered robotics thanks to a toy called
fischertechnik many, many years ago, in mid-70's when I was a
teenager. I used to play with Lego and Meccano, but fischertechnik
offered the perfect combination of both.
Later on, I went into motors, superstructures, electro-mechanics
and electronics, till 1980.
Many years after, in 2000, I discovered at the Franz Carl Weber
toy shop in Geneva, the new range with the Intelligent Interface,
actually a micro-controller. So I started playing again with the
pneumatic kit. Other kits came after.
In 2009, I went from 8 bits to 32 bits, changing my Intelligent
Interface for two Robo TX controllers. I'm still discovering the
new development environment as well as the niceties of the high
speed controllers.
I'm mostly interested in industrial robots and
mobile robots. My most sophisticated model included ~30 sensors and
~30 actuators, and relied heavily on multi-processing.
I'm presently a beta-tester with fischertechnik.
Because the fischertechnik micro-controller is a "black-box", I
went recently on Arduino to go inside of a micro-controller,
understand the embedded programming better, get familiar with I2C
protocol and experiment with I2C sensors and actuators, try and
communicate with TX-C through opto-couplers, digital potentiometer
and finally I2C.
What kind of actions needs to be done in the community to
increase the interest and the awareness of robots /
robotics?
Robots / Robotics offer a very wide range of disciplines: sensors,
signal processing, formal logic, programming, mathematics,
modelisation, electronics, ...
Giving each child the opportunity to build and play with a robot
at school may raise the interest on robotics and provide a clearer
vision of what robots truly are.
Links:
Website:
www.reivilohobbies.weebly.com
fischertechnik section:
www.reivilofischertechnik.weebly.com
Arduino section:
www.embeddedcomputing.weebly.com
Most sophisticated model:
http://sites.google.com/site/vilorei/fischertechnik/m--models/m09--new-magasin
(soon)
[source: Vive Les Robots!]
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Rei Vilo got two main hobbies:
1) Arduino, an Italian designed and built micro-controller to
explore what's inside the embedded computing world and learn I2C
protocol.
And 2) fischertechnik, a German building toy with endless possibilities, including mechanics, statics, motors, and ultimately micro-controller operated models with sensors and coding-motors.