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 How Do I Share My How-To?It's really pretty easy, pictures and videos of the steps it takes to complete your project are stored on google video and picasaWeb. The "final" video is stored on YouTube. All this is controlled by our Creator's Tools. Basically, you start a project by writing up the project idea. Step 1. Sign up for a free Creator's Account to gain access to the Creator's Tools. Step 2. Login Step 3. Push the "Create New Project" button on the Creator's Tools. Make a name (you can change it later) for your project. And describe your plans to use as notes to guide the creation of the steps. Step 4. When you've finished providing all the steps to your project, shooting the videos and saving to google video via the Creator's Tool Panel, you are ready to write the introductory paragraph with an interesting story of how you did it, or how you do it in the case of a professional services presentation. Step 5. Last but not least create and upload the video (to YouTube) which is the video that will be used to summarize the project. If you were building a robot, this final video would show the robot running around, doing fun things that will inspire others to create their version of your project. That's it... Watch the views and ratings for your project pile up along with the sales commissions! Or get a customer because you showed how you remodel a house. Or sell your own kit online through your e-Bay store. |
FAQ About Becoming A CreatorQ. Why would I go to all that work, building something, then put it on a website like C What I Can Do? What's the point? A. Actually, there are a couple of forms for a reward:
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CwhatIcanDo Website ... 5049 Views CwhatIcanDo.com allows everyone to view the results of Project Creators.
For experimenters: A place to organize your project in steps (as many as you need) using pictures or videos to explain to others "how-to" create this project. For professionals: Another place to add videos or pictures of your finished work, so people who are looking for your company`s goods or services can see examples of your work. Sell your projects via kits, books, instructions, etc.. For either, a set of development tools created to permit you to show in step by step form how to do it yourself, or how a process or procedure is done. So, whether you are building street cred for an addition to your resume, or trying to sell parts kits for a home built scooter or birdhouse. You can give others the chance to buy a kit of parts from you, the creator. In fact, thats one of the differences between CwhatIcanDo and other do it yourself or weekend project websites. You, as a creator of a project can make money by selling your project parts through a distributor with which CwhatIcanDo has agreements. Thus when CwhatIcanDo refers someone to a parts source, simply by clicking a link this website makes a commission from the sale which CwhatIcanDo splits with the creator. You got it. Showing off your project on CwhatIcanDo gives you a chance, not just for glory, but for Money$$$$$! Author's Assigned Keywords: Ajax How To How To Website web 2.0 site web HELP :: How To Create a Project ... 448 Views To Create A New C What I Can Do Project. * SignUp for Creator Account. It`s Free! * Login with your new User ID and Password. Now when you Click Creator`s Tools, you will be led to your creator`s account. * Create Your First Project. Just for an experiment. You can delete it from your Creator`s Tool any time. Author's Assigned Keywords: How multi Create a Project CwhatIcanDo HELP HELP BEAM BOT: HexBug Exposed! ... 4360 Views When it goes, it goes like this... Forward motion until the feeler touches something which reverses the motor. When it backs up, the motor has a clutch that causes one leg to not move in reverse. The net effect is when the bug backs up, it turns, thus a simple object avoidance algorithm runs without a control computer to make it happen. I almost forgot, there is a clapper in the HexBug. Yeah, just clap and it reverses, whether it hits something or not. I forgot to show that in the video. Author's Assigned Keywords: BEAM Robots Robots Building an RFL Inspired Upright Robot Base ... 3507 Views This is my version of (at least) the base of an RFL upright robot. It works pretty well, but I can't go much further until I get my hands on one of those RFL Football Robots. Then, I'm going to want to make my RFL Robot Base into the most powerful line backer or maybe Center in the RFL... Geez, maybe the "Super Bowl?" Wait a minute. They use like a 9-Volt battery pack and a fancy gearmotor on each wheel... OK then. This bot will make a nice coach bot, or cheerBot... Maybe just half-time entertainment? Geez. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots RFL Robots DogBot the Robo Dog : Robotic WatchDog ... 84 Views DogBot is my first robotic dog project.
I was inspired by a guy who was building a Robot "watch dog." His dogbot was a little different than mine. I guess his junkbox had different items than mine. Anyway, his dogbot was great, so it inspired me to build my own. His dogbot had 4-wheel drive, mine two-wheel plus steering. I'd recommend 4 Wheel Drive so the dog can shift quickly from one direction to another. With steering control, poor dogBot has to backup to do a 180. Your programming life will be so much easier, your batteries will last longer and you can turn your dog more like a real dog. It can even chase it's own tail. But, unlike a real dog, a recharger is the only food this dog will need. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots Robot Pets picaxe 8m: Wall Follower Mouse gets Majorly Modded ... 3791 Views Take a PicAxe brain, add an infrared "whisker" and a motor controller, transplant to an existing wall follower robot and you have: "CRAZY Mouse Bot on Steroids!" For the issues and tricks, here`s what I did: * Mount the Power Transistors right down at the motors, if you bend them like wings, you can connect to their bases and feed power directly from the on/off switch * With the batteries I`m using AA-1700 mah, you have to turn off brown out protection to allow the processor to go under 3 and 1/2 volts or so, you also need to keep the batteries fresh * The four battery clip is a little large and collides with the top of the back, shim it in the back so it leans forward, that works. That`s it!! Have fun programming your MouseBot!!! Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots BEAM Robots picAxe robotics picAxe 08m Buggy Bot: Wire Frame Bot Body ... 1911 Views This is a project I call the buggyBot, not because it won't do what you ask it, but because I want to build a little buggy that runs around the room and gets itself into trouble...
I came up with the idea of using wire robot frames by looking at some of the creative bodies people built out of junk and wires, and extra components. I could see the advantages, you could change the whole body by grabbing and twisting. I thought the process could be used for more "traditional" bot bodies. I also had a couple of Toshiba 8080 (Yeh, I know what you're thinking) H Bridges I wanted to play with. This is the Wire Body Bot I created. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots Robot Motor Control Build the L298 H-Bridge Motor Control ... 6605 Views This is a how-to video for building an L298 Dual H-Bridge Motor Controller. I can`t wait to drive a robot with this controller. This is a higher current model than the TI version used in the motor drivers that come with the picAxe evaluation boards. The drivers can handle a couple of Amps each so this thing is fairly healthy. The issue is the strange pinout. You are almost assuredly stuck with having to create a PC board, and that was more work than I cared to create for myself. So I bought the kit and put it together in a couple of hours. It worked fine and now I`m ready to put it to use. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots Robot Motor Control Self Help Special ... 1297 Views How to calm down and gather your senses after you've had a traumatic experience. Once again, I'm resolving Data Base Entries by putting this project in here. This will establish the DB connection to the Site Wide Categories. Eventually, this function will be replaced when the guys from Fyera and/or HeartMath load up this category. Author's Assigned Keywords: Self Converting a Flashlight to LED ... 4008 Views How to convert a standard incandescent flashlight to an LED based flashlight. Everyone knows the new high-light output LED's are the rage in small hand-held battery powered flashlights. It used to cost a lot of money to get access to high-light output LED's, but they have become cheaper and are now available for less than a dollar. In this example project the LED cost 25 Cents! That's a pretty reasonable price for a new flashlight. The advantage of LED, is the output of light without all the heat generated by the incandescent (hot wire in a vacuum.) That means less power used and flashlight batteries that hit the landfill less often. Using a combination of rechargeable batteries and incandescent replacements means you'll probably never see the landfill, since the low power drain will mean you'll rarely even have to recharge your batteries as often. So this is a green project too! Go green, have some fun! Author's Assigned Keywords: Lighting Projects Light Convert Your Flashlight to LED Select or type in a Keyword RFL Robot Out Of The Box Experience ... 1420 Views From thanking the Post Office guy for delivering the shipping box, to operating the robot! It's all here in this video. 1. Unpacking... Careful with all the packing peanuts. 2. Opening the box... You get a nice box with plenty of accessories. You can see the bot through a transparent cover. Not too flashy. They aren't marketing all over me with it. No, it's clean and simple and, if you've been watching the videos only and haven't seen one in person yet, be prepared to be happy. 3. Charge the battery. Instructions are actually sketchy about this. Let me be clear: It ships with niCads - give 'em an overnight charge, drain thoroughly, the usual niCad care and keeping. 4. Turn on the console, it should ship set up to control your bot. 5. Turn on the Bot. After announcing itself as "RFL" in a booming voice, it will reset it's throwing arm. (Watch out, it slams down pretty hard, and can pinch!) 6. In a moment, the Bot's Helmet should light up. When it does, it means the data is flowing to and from the bot. 7. Drive it! *. A tip... There are extensions for the wheels to allow it to back up on carpets and rougher surfaces, like my back deck. Think of them as training wheels and put them on while your battery pack is charging. It will be easier to drive the bot. Fewer nasty falls when backing up on rough surfaces. See next video for driving with extensions... Author's Assigned Keywords: RFL Robots Robots Robot Basics ... 1662 Views I`m calling this robot basics, but I`m leaning to more like a minimum "robot." Introduce a couple motors, a switch, and some bumpers. Add some delays, etc by using a timer control. Thus it can crawl backwards for example, for 1/2 second then start going forward again. Then you can power on a right or left turn on going forward. If you put a listing and it leaves out some, then you have exceeded the limits for an input box and you will need to split... There`s a bug. If you use pre for format control, the pre shows in the listing for the project. For now, skip the insertion of the <pre>uses direct format</pre>. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot Motor Control Robots How To Build a Custom You Tube Player ... 2608 Views Build Your Own Custom YOU TUBE player. You can control all the videos that appear in the player. There are two types of players available: First one is the standard You Tube Player, it looks pretty much like any other player, except when the play is over the screen shows only the videos you wish for it to show, thus controlling the videos displayed to your site visitors. Author's Assigned Keywords: You Tube Player How To Custom Video Player Multi Media Messaging Device ... 1252 Views This is just a placeHolder for a project with "multi" in it's name. Thus it will display as a SiteCategory (Multi Media). Author's Assigned Keywords: multi web Tricycle Robot Gets Around - Building Alternative Experiments: ... 1802 Views With a single motor and a single servo, you end up with an interesting configuration. Im playing around with an idea to create a ball-bot, if you will. The ball robot would be driven by a single drive wheel which is turnable. Thus, from inside a large ball, you could make a round ball of a robot. That idea intrigued me!!! Put a single drive motor on the end of a servo, then use that inside a ball. I couldnt resist playing with the idea. This is the result of the combination. Since a two-rear wheel stabilizes the single drive wheel we test the idea with a Tricycle robot! Author's Assigned Keywords: robotics Robots picAxe 14m Motor Driver Board: Make Your Own ... 5822 Views Both motor speed and direction are easily controlled using the picAxe 14m. The speed and direction motor drives most small DC electric motors up to 1A stall current. It uses the Toshiba TA 8080K to drive the motor. This is a chance to exercise the capabilities of the 8080. Yes, the 8080 which gives some of us flashbacks to the early microprocessor days! Steering is controlled by using a servo. In the buggy bot, this servo turns steerable front wheels. While you can also use the servo to steer the drive wheels as in the tricycle robot base project. What is a picAxe? A picAxe is a pic microcontroller (In this case a PIC16F684.) with a built-in BASIC Language Interpreter. Yes, it eats up a bit of memory and can do only a limited number of things. But you cannot beat a pixAxe for experimenting and playing around. If you use them correctly, they can serve well. But you may need to dedicate the chip. For example, dogBot used a picAxe 14m just like this project. It could drive Servos, OR Drive Electronic Motor Controllers. Trying to get it to do both is pushing the capabilities. When you need to use more of the chips capabilities, you get a bigger chip, or you program the PIC16F684 in a compiled language instead of as a picAxe. picAxe 8m`s are other examples, while the chip itself can decode IR signals, the limitations on number of pins restrict it from many applications. An m8 can control a motor, but little else. The 14m in this project uses all the available outputs and could still use more. Achieve complexity by using more than one chip. (Or go straight to assembly language or C compiler which gives you much more memory, but makes programming difficult.) Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot Motor Control Robots picAxe picAxe 14m robotics Operation of the Tri-Bot From Wowwee! ... 2936 Views This video describes the first experience operating the WowWee! Tri-Bot. From out of the box, how it works, how to use it. Of course the first, arguably the most important instruction is how to turn the robot volume down. This little red robot will drive you crazy as it rolls around your house. The usual WowWee robot, you can program movements and play 'em back. You can manually control the bot, it is really good at spinning in place, but it will move forward, back left and right. The most fun happens when you set the Tri Bot "free" to roam on it's own. Just hit the brain button and it moves around avoiding, and occasionally engaging obstacles. The downside, the tri drive falls over a lot when it engages a wall. The object detector is located high on the bot, so it runs into smaller things a lot, without even knowing about 'em. I'll let you judge how much fun you may have with the robot. I have my eye on the tri-bot's drive motors and those multi-directional wheels! Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots Robot Pets Build Your Own Track Drive Robot ... 4588 Views Describes how to "build one of these" yourself. Pretty much is a step-by-step guide to build your own track drive robot.
It is pretty simple and relatively cheap and actually kind of a fun way to become familiar with Robots and Robotics in general. It isn`t long after getting your first robot, you start to wish that little wheeled bot could climb over things in a relentless forward motion - - Like a Tank! Even though the old timers told me I didn`t want the hassles of a track-drive robot, I knew it wasn`t true. I wanted one! I wanted it simple and cheap and programmable for fun! Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots track drive robot picAxe IR Detector Infrared Proximity Sensor Build a Robot In 5 Minutes ... 4148 Views SimpleBot the 5 Minutes to Build Robot This is "the bot" for experimenters who are anxious to make their first robot and get it running. It`s held together with tape, so you can take it apart and experiment. The example Simple Bot uses a couple of gearMotors with wheels, battery pack, etc.. One of any starting roboticist`s issues is making the robot base. In this case, the robot`s base is made out of the bodies of the gearMotors themselves. Simply arranging the gearMotors, then taping them together allows the experimental roboticist to take the starter bot apart and put it back together again. NOTE: Don`t Forget to put a picAxe 08m chip. In some cases, depending on where you get your picAxe motor controller chip, you will have to replace the 08 with 08m, or write your own code... If pin3 high there`s an object... and check before you make the motors run! Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots Quick Build Robot CwhatIcanDo Specs: RC2 ... 1244 Views What about Really separating Creators from just commentors, lookie lu's etc... They can work together, but the Creators may need a little quality control... Plus this gives things the ear marks of a new competitive engine where ppl come together around Ideas... Maybe CwhatIdid.com? --------------------------- Maybe sooner - If someone is creating a parts list, they need to be able to grab things from other parts lists... The multiMedia "holder" page (creator) needs to offer an appropriate filler when a project is created. Maybe it's contextual, if you sign in as Creator from the Site Category of Robots, you get Robotic fillers (and conceivably, backgrounds and stuff as a default... - Parts list components should offer "sponsored" parts only. Say like SparkFun... "New since your last visit" add this... Author's Assigned Keywords: Ajax web 2.0 site Making Music With Clam Shells ... 1239 Views Hello, Dr Zoidberg again. I was trying to figure out what to do with the large quantity of clamshells I have accumulated since taken residence in the "Mother of Perl" software factory. After hours i get hungry and it's amazing how big the piles of clam shells I am creating. Author's Assigned Keywords: Music Tour This Website ... 1566 Views This is a pretty complex site when you decide to become a creator. There are so many things you can do with the creator tools and we hope they get even nicer with more capabilities over time and use with feedback. Pictured here is the HOME PAGE... You can Xpand the menu and look around at categories, creators, keywords, or by how many visitors. For the tour, we will look at all the pages you need to deal with to create your own project and feature it on CwhatIcanDo. Author's Assigned Keywords: How To Website HELP Home Installation of a 4 Section In-Ground Batting Cage ... 3466 Views Installation instructions for a 4 section in-ground batting cage from PracticeSports.com. There are a variety of different "packages" available. These are available at a relatively low-cost by buying sectioned kits. Author's Assigned Keywords: batting cage installation Home How To Robot Man - Robot Demos ... 2944 Views Hello, This is WeRbots, with the robot videos, you know another robot Freak... I built this website mainly to have a place where I and my friends, amateur and professional robot builders could show off our "stuff." Though this isnt exactly a step-by-step project you can build, it is fun because, for me at least, it is a way to record my robo-nutiness for all posterity. At least as long as there is a You Tube! So this is a collection of the commercial robots I bought. Some I bought to learn, like the Avoider, others I bought to Mod, like RoboQuad, whatever the reason, these are some of the bots I bought trying to make my way in the world of DIY robots. Enjoy the Videos! Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot Man Robot Pets picAxe 8 bit Motor Controller: Look Inside ... 187 Views The low-cost picAxe Motor Controller allows you to build a universal motor control for Robots. Just mount the IR detector right on the board. Then you can mount the whole thing on an R/C car or junker robot and wham! You are in business! You need an 8m picAxe chip in the controller. Most are advertised with an 8m chip, although I have found them with only a picAxe 8 pin chip. There is no interrupt in the 8 pin chip, so you will need the 8m to make this design work. Why do this? You can have a controller that you can move around. It is cheap and easy to create the universal board by mounting the IR detector directly on the PC board. Give some examples of alternatives - Like using the TA8080. Get Software... Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot Motor Control Robots ... 751 Views Home Project: MUTE TV Wearable TV Muter! ... 2272 Views Yes, you can build your own muter. I built one in a button, but the form factor is not the biggest part of the project. This project uses the picAxe microcontroller chip because it has built in Infrared Remote Control codes for Sony TV`s. I have a Sony. I simply put the already built-in functions in the picAxe to work. I was careful about current drain. I could have made the Infrared light more powerful and increased the range, but I`m usually sitting by the fireplace on a rainy winter night when on comes a commercial! The commercials are hyper modulated, there is no dynamic range and the result is like listening to an orchestra of square-waves. And those "Gotta Have One Now" pitches is terrible enough at any sound level. But definitely offensive to your auditory circuits. Author's Assigned Keywords: Home entertainment TV commercial killer Mute the TV Remote controlled picaxe 08m robot ... 1272 Views Here is a robot project that uses the picaxe 08m with an infared module to control a small robot.
It uses off the shelf parts and a motor driver board. How To Make A Virtual Robot in FLASH ... 1721 Views I build robots. Little electromechanical machines that roll around the floor, seek light, avoid objects. Stuff like that. I also run a little kid`s website called cybercritters. So I decided the kids might like a robot to drive around. If they like it enough I can expand it to run in 2 1/2 D, or avoid objects, or make it into an avoidance race, or whatever strikes my fancy. I thought it would be fun to share how I put the little robot together using Flash. I use the old Macromedia Flash 8, I just can`t spring for the loot right now. So here`s the inside scoop on how I built a robot that is virtual, and you can play with it for free on the web. Here goes! Author's Assigned Keywords: FLASH Applications Robots Robot Action Script 2 Virtual Pet Robot An affordable Logic Analyzer for the workbench. ... 1897 Views Add a 100MHz 32 channel Logic Analyzer to your workbench to debug PWM signals, SPI protocol, or any digital logic. Project homepage is http://www.gadgetfactory.net/gf/project/lax/. The Open Source design of the Software and Hardware allows anyone to make it their own. Based on FPGA technology which allows high speed sampling. Author's Assigned Keywords: fpga logic analyzer open source debug How to build simple analog balancing robots ... 995 Views One 555 timer and a couple of parts and you get a balancing robot base. I`d love to take credit for this project, but the credit for making a balancing robot goes to roboanalogtom (Tom Jenner) at You Tube. Frankly, even though I didn`t do the work, I knew there were others who are interested in such things. Like the upright RFL robot base project. The video tells it all and maybe when roboanalogtom checks his links and finds CwhatIcanDo users are viewing his video, maybe he`ll come here and share schematics or better still, show his latest version. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot Robot Motor Control Robots robotics BEAM Robots ... 392 Views qko ... 477 Views qko Droid From Motorola :: A Robot ? ... 816 Views It`s been a while since I created a new project for Cwhat I can Do, so here goes. I obtained a Motorola Droid. (They finally got on Verizon - The only network that covers the Santa Cruz Mountains.) But I`m a robot guy? So what Have I got in Mind for a Phone that calls itself a Robot? Well, of course I`ve got an idea or two... I`ve been considering using ATX mini motherboards, web books, you name it. So along comes Droid. The more I read about it, the more it seems like this is something I could use to control a Robot. And maybe, just maybe, could become the central controller for my Dream Robot? High Hopes for this platform, and now that I have one, I am not disappointed. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot robotics Android Droid Droid Smart Phone henryMLTV ... 36 Views henryMLYV  It's Easy To: C - What - I - Can - Do • Sign up - Get ID and Password• Plan and Create a Project That Someone Might Enjoy and May Even Want to Build• Link to your creation on your favorite social networking site or blog.• Become famous! Because your projects get a lot of Hits!
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