GCtronic
GCtronic is active in the fields of electronics, robotics, mechatronics and computer science. It proposes services and consulting for development of projects, products, software and system integration. The company sells and supports its own products as well as third party ones.
The main expertise is project development and integration; from the global problem to the final solution!
NEWS
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January 2012. The Elisa robot is now arrived to its third version, Elisa 3. It now includes a series of new sensors: 8 IR proximity and 4 ground sensors. The Atmel microcontroller is Arduino compatible. More information can be found on the wiki; for orders visit the shop.
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November 2011. GCtronic designed a cliff module that extends the current ground sensor extension; this new module let the robot detect a possible cliff and thus avoid to fall down. Moreover the cliff module is coupled with a charging station that automatically charges the battery without the need of removing it from the robot. More information can be found on the wiki; for orders visit the shop.
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September 2011. The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011) will be held on September 25-30 2011 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. A demonstration by Disney Research Zurich and based on the Elisa robot designed at GCtronic will show a swarm of small, illuminated microrobots for pattern formation and emerging behavior research; the demonstration has been regarded particularly interesting and has been selected for presentation.
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August 2011 The small sized robot Elisa (5 cm of diameter and 3 cm height) is now available in the shop with a special starting price of 280 CHF. More information can be found on the wiki.
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July 2011. The omnivision module was re-designed to include 3 RGB leds placed 120° from each other and an additional battery pack that doubles the available energy. |
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April 2011. GCtronic designed an omnivision module that provides you an entire scene of the surroudning environment. The module is thought to be coupled with the e-puck extension for Gumstix Overo COM. The module is already available in the shop with a special starting price. More information can be found on the wiki. |
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February 2011. GCtronic is designing a new robot, this will be called Elisa. It's a small size robot with 5 cm of diamater, capable of moving also vertically thanks to its magnetic wheels. At the moment it includes an RGB led, some IRs emitters, an accelerometer and an RF radio for communication, but some others sensors will be added in the final design. |
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| October 2010. GCtronic will participate together with Skybotix to the IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), that will be held on October 18-22 2010 at the Taipei International Conference Center, Taiwan. For more information on the event visit http://www.iros2010.org.tw/.
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| October 2010. GCtronic will participate to the 10th Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), November 1-3, 2010. EPFL, Lausanne,
Switzerland. For more information visit http://dars2010.epfl.ch.
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September 2010. A new extension is now available in the shop: the range and bearing board lets miniaturized robots communicate and at the same time obtain the range and bearing of the source of emission. For more information visit http://www.rbzrobotdesign.com/epuck.
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| August 2010. A new offer is now available in the shop: you can now order an e-puck robot with the Gumstix Overo COM extension profiting of a small discount. |
| July 2010. We profit from the occasion to have many robots in stock to make a video with 100 e-puck; you can enjoy it from the wiki.
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June 2010. The e-puck has now a new extension: a 3x3 RGB display. Let your imagination run away with yourself, realizing colorful animations.
More information can be found on the wiki.
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| May 2010. At the end of this month, on 29 and 30 May, at the EPFL (Lausanne) there will be a big robotics Festival http://festivalrobotique.epfl.ch/. GCtronic is pleased to sponsor this event.
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February 2010. Transform e-puck in a full computer with wheels!! New product in pre-order on the shop (samples currently available). Extend the processing capability of e-puck adding a famous gumstix computer board.
More information can be found on the wiki.
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January 2010. GCtronic wish you a successful 2010.
Seasonal GIFT: transform your e-puck to a parrot! It's able to reproduce every sound or word it's hearing, so you can teach it whatever you want, but it has a limited memory though: it can learn for at most two seconds.
Download the complete SW project or just the .hex.
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November 2009. GCtronic moved about 20 km to a new and bigger location. The new address is:
Via Cassarinetta 2
6900 Lugano
Switzerland. |
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October 2009. GCtronic participated to the definition and realization of the exposition "Corpo, Automi, Robot" in Lugano. The big exhibition will be open till end of February and it mixes art, science and technology from the antiquity to nowadays. Have a look at the museum site for more information: Museo d'Arte Lugano. |
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| GCtronic wiki. It's now available the wiki page of the GCtronic projects; help us growing it adding what you think might be useful for other users, such as tools, demo applications, links, etc. Wiki page. |
| July 2009. SUMMER SCHOOL in BARCELLONA. Next September there will be a summer school using the robot e-puck. This will be hosted by the Robotics Lab in Barcellona. Link http://iua.upf.edu/bcbt09/. |
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May 2009. The developer of the e-puck robot just published a reference design paper:
The e-puck, a Robot Designed for Education in Engineering
Mondada, Francesco ; Bonani, Michael ; Raemy, Xavier ; Pugh, James ; Cianci, Christopher ; Klaptocz, Adam ; Magnenat, Stephane ; Zufferey, Jean-Christophe ; Floreano, Dario ; Martinoli, Alcherio
Presented at: 9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 7, 2009.
Link to the pdf
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April 2009. The partner company Skybotix launched CoaX: a compact, lightweight indoor coaxial helicopter. |
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December 2008. Seasonal GIFT: transform your e-puck into a Christmas demo with sound and light!
See the demo on YouTube.
Download the complete SW project or just the .hex.
Also a Matlab script to easily transform sound wav files to be compiled in an e-puck project |
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| September 2008. e-puck is used in several universities and techincal school but not only. In this picture an artistic exhibition! |
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June 2008. New production is ready to ship. There are some small enhancements and a new camera.
To use the new camera (from serial number 1500), update your software at gna.org/projects/e-puck or at e-puck_links.php
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March 2008. New ON-LINE SHOP page is active and running. You can directly order with paypal or ask for an official offer. |
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January 2008. Reflective strip for e-puck available: On-line shop. This is very useful for mutual detection in case of experiments with multiple robots.
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October 2007. Ground sensor module available. EPFL doc
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June 2007. Charger for 4 e-puck batteries available : On-line shop.
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November 2006. GCtronic joined the Swiss Mobile Robotics Consortium.
The consortium promote the use of new robot technologies at an industrial level and aims to create and improve the awareness of today's and tomorrow's Mobile Robotics market.
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September 2006. The educational mobile robot
e-puck developed by
EPFL-ASL (now
EPFL-MOBOTS) is available from GCtronic. Technical details at
www.gctronic.com/e-puck.php or
www.e-puck.org. For more information contact
info@gctronic.com
