There are plenty of “robot” projects out there that are really just a small remote control platform of some sort. We often like to think of robots of having some sort of autonomy though. [Luca Fagioli ...

An Arduino Uno guards a running 12 V motor. It watches for a person coming too close, overheating, abnormal vibration, a tilted machine and a jammed shaft. When something is wrong it slows the motor, ...

firmware/machine_safety_v2/machine_safety_v2.ino is a state machine driven by a non-blocking scheduler. Nothing waits: each task checks whether its time has come and ...