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Programming the e-puck2 in MicroPython is now even easier: a new guide shows how to set up a complete development environment in Visual Studio Code, with autocompletion of the e-puck2 functions and one-click commands to run scripts on the robot.
The guide also explains how to add an AI coding assistant together with the e-puck2 skill developed by GCtronic, so that the assistant knows the whole e-puck2 MicroPython API.
An example with a debugging exercise is included. For more information refer to the wiki.

Under the supervision of Prof. Mondada at EPFL, many groups of students worked in the last months on "Mini-projects" using the robot e-puck2. The EPFL course is called “Embedded Systems and Robotics”.
Winner of the GCtronic Award is the project "e-puck 2 collaborative robotic convoy in embedded system" by students Noé Ventura and Tim Vial. Congratulations. See video.

GCtronic introduces the e-puck 2.2 hardware update, featuring a new ESP32 processor with additional 2MB of PSRAM for expanded memory and processing. It also features an ICM-20948 9-axis IMU, replacing the MPU-9250. The main connector and form factor remain the same, so compatibility with all extension is maintained.

e-puck2 masters advanced audio processing with Micropython: in an exciting development for educational robotics, the e-puck2 robot has demonstrated capabilities related to real-time audio processing using Micropython. This example highlights the robot's versatility for research and development in acoustics and signal processing. For more information refer to the wiki: Micropython examples. The same example was also available in Python, refer to the wiki: Python. Have a look also at the video.

Micropython support was extended including also some examples, refer to the wiki and have a look at the video.
GCtronic wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Micropython is now available also on e-puck2 robots. This significant update allows users to program the robots using an accessible language, making the e-puck2 an even more powerful tool for educational and research purposes. This is an initial version that will be further updated soon...stay tuned. For more information refer to the wiki.

A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) monitor was released for the e-puck2 robot. This new tool allows you to interact with your e-puck2 robot directly from a web page using also your mobile devices, check it out e-puck2 BLE monitor. For more information refer to the wiki.

Under the supervision of Prof. Mondada at EPFL, many groups of students worked in the last months on "Mini-projects" using the robot e-puck2. The EPFL course is called “Embedded Systems and Robotics”.
Winner of the GCtronic Award is the project "Autonomous Car Simulation using the e-puck robot" by students Nathan Maillard and Luca Stöcklin. Congratulations. See video.

Research projects involving the e-puck2 robots are continuously growing. As an example, Tohid Kargar Tasooji is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Georgia, specializing in control and robotics. In several of its recent research projects, the E-puck2 robot has served as a key platform for experimental validation. The outcomes of these projects have been published in top-tier journals and have received significant citations. You can have a look at the articles from the publications page. You can have a look also at the videos: Cooperative Localization in Mobile RobotsUsing Event-Triggered Mechanism:Theory and Experiments and Distributed LQG consensus control of networked multi-agent systems by event-triggered communication.
If you have some publications using e-puck robots not listed in the publications page, you are welcome to contact us.

The elisa-3 robots are really interesting for the swarm research community. Here is a nice video that shows the usage of local communication together with a central computer exchanging data with 37 elisa-3 robots simultaneously. For more information refer to the wiki.

An OLED display is now available on the shop for the Pi-puck extension. You can show useful information about the robot state or display some nice graphics. For more information refer to the wiki.

GCtronic continues to support its users: recently we extended the examples available for the elisa-3 robot, if you are interested have a look at the wiki.

GCtronic developed a new Pi-Puck module for indoor positioning system based on Ultra Wide Band. Have a look at the video. For more information refer to the wiki or contact us. The Ultra Wide Band extension for Pi-Puck is available in the shop.

The GCtronic team worked on releasing an updated system that includes ROS2. You can have access to the new system image from the wiki.

Elisa-3 is our smallest educational mobile robot. Just 5 cm in diameter. During the last months we produced a new batch for several requests. Now we have a new assembly with magnetic wheels so that the robot can move also on vertical walls. For more information visit the wiki.

Python is a popular programming language supported by a large and comprehensive standard library. A Python library is now available for the elisa-3 robot, you can start playing with it following the guide in the wiki.

Under the supervision of Prof. Mondada at EPFL, 68 groups of students worked in the last months on "Micro-projects" using the robot e-puck2. The EPFL course is called “Embedded Systems and Robotics”.
Winner of the GCtronic Award is the project "robot espion" by students Paul Lanfermann et Jérémie Moullet. Congratulations. See video.
A special mention also to an original automatic parking concept by students Luca Sidoti Pinto and Victor Van den Heuvel, see video.

New app version developed by GCtronic released for the Morini Competition ARM SA pistols. Enjoy the new features: available for iOS and Android.

GCtronic just launched a new production of the range and bearing extension, that is especially useful for swarm research. We implemented also some firmware optimizations in the e-puck2 firmware for best performances with this extension; a new release of the e-puck2 firmware is available here.

Our elves are at work to satisfy the demand of our robots: 500 new e-puck2 robots, 100 new elisa-3 robots and 150 new Pi-puck extensions :-)
GCtronic wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

The Pi-puck extension is now compatible also with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. You can expect a 5 times faster overall speed.

GCtronic made some efforts for maintaining available the range and bearing extension that is important especially for the swarm research community. Here is a nice video that shows the usage of the module with 28 e-puck2 robots. GCtronic wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

GCtronic updated the list of publications related to the e-puck robot with more than 180 publications. This confirms that the e-puck robot is one of the best platform available for robotics research and that there is a big and active community around the e-puck. You can find the complete list here. Please feel free to contact us if you have a publication missing in this list.

GCtronic is involved in third party integration and innovation projects. The last example is the new electronics controlling the wonderful competition pistol of Morini. Apart controlling the shooting, the embedded accelerometer and gyroscope give useful insight to the user via Bluetooth on the smartphone App. See the video.

An example on how to form a mesh network with the e-puck2 robots is available in the wiki. Some of the benefits of a mesh newtork are: self-configuring, self-healing and great coverage. A video of the example is also available if you want to see the robots in action.

Automotive research is an hot topic nowadays and the e-puck2 robot can help simulating and testing new algorithms in this field...here is an initial project (see video) developed by Loris Tracchia, an intern at GCtronic, in which some robots navigate a city trying to handle the crossroads using only the onboard sensors. The project will continue by improving the software side, but also by integrating new hardware (e.g. an UWB module simulating a GPS). Feel free to contact us if you want to collaborate on this project.

Here are the best semester projects with e-puck2 robot developed at EPFL. e-puck2 becomes a 4-color wall plotter by Vincent Nguyen, have a look at these videos video1, video2 and repository. e-puck2 balancing robot by Josquin Tille and Vincent Philippoz, have a look at the video and repository. Plotbot by Théo Gieruc and Guillaume Krafft, have a look at the video and repository. And a last video that shows how to have fun with the e-puck2 robot ;-)

And the winner is...this year the GCtronic prize goes to Gabriel Maquignaz and Maxime Poffet for their semester project with e-puck2 robot at EPFL: the robot learns to associate a dance pattern with a sound track and then it reproduces the dance when it is listening to that sound track, have a look at the video. A special mention is given also to Pierre Oppliger and WIlliam Galand for recognizing a ball independently of light conditions with e-puck2 robot, have a look at the video video.

We implemented some basic concepts of local infection transmission and proximity tracing exploiting Bluetooth 4 on our robot e-puck2. The goal is to provide an open source framework and to visualize the positive effect of proximity tracing APP within a pandemic such as COVID-19. Have a look at the video and for more information refer to the wiki.

GCtronic will be present at the European Robotics Forum in Malaga, 03-05 March 2020. See you soon.

Robots on the water! We announce our new robot "boat-bot", a small catamaran for research on any water surface. Now you have a good reason to go to the beach....
For more information have a look at the product page.

EzyMark now with a very visible windsock. Production is on going and first unit sold and delivered.
For more information visit https://www.ezymark.net.

The e-puck2 robot is now equipped with infrared local communication to let the users develop their swarm algorithms. For more information have a look at wiki.

As a first result of a running project, the 3D model of the e-puck2 with the Pi-puck has been improved: https://github.com/cyberbotics/webots/pull/705.

Some successful tests were performed on tracking the e-puck2 robots through a color marker placed on top of them. A standard USB camera was used. For more information have a look at wiki.

Robots on the water! GCtronic is developing a new robotic platform floating on the water. Used first as a sailing mark, is also a great research platform to address fundamental questions on the 2/3 of the planet surface. For more information refer to www.ezymark.net.

Charging wall for Pi-puck is available. Now the robot can autonomously charge itself for an endless fun. You can order the wall charger from the shop.

Omnivision V3 is available. Together with the new Pi-puck, now the Omnivision extension is more powerful but cheaper! For more information refer to the wiki

Pi-puck is available. join the community of Raspberry Pi with the richness of the e-puck 2 sensors and actuators. For more information refer to the wiki

First 500 e-puck 2 delivered to happy users. New production batch is launched.

GCtronic will present the new Pi-puck extension and many others products at the European Robotics Forum in Bucharest, 20-22 March 2019. See you soon.

Good news on the e-puck2 software side: the Bluetooth and WiFi branches of the main microcontroller firmware were merged. Also the wiki is expanding with many useful informations for the users.

GCtronic will present the new e-puck2 at the conferences IROS in Madrid 2-4 Oct, and DARS in Boulder 15-17 Oct. At the exhibitions you will be able to see and touch all the robots of GCtronic. And a new e-puck extension will be unveiled...

The e-puck2 software development is continuously expanding the robot features: now the WiFi communication is supported, you can control and receive sensors data through WiFi. For more information refer to the wiki.

The e-puck2 is going well, more than 100 robots are already employed on the field. Hurry up because the launching price of 700.- is valid until the end of April, then a single robot will cost 850.- and starting from a set of 3 robots the price will be 800.- each.

The new version of the widely used e-puck robot is here...the e-puck2 has same shape and mechanics but a more powerful controller, USB, Time of Flight sensor and WiFi to name a few. For more information visit the e-puck2 robot product page. It was designed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in collaboration with GCtronic.

Now it is possible to simulate the e-puck robot with your preferred browser thanks to the wonderful job done by Cyberbotics. Have a look at https://robotbenchmark.net/ for more informations.

The Wheelphone robot, among others applications, can be used as a telepresence robot. By exploiting Skype and by installing a specific application on the phone, you will be able to reach your Wheelphone from all over the world. For more information refer to the wiki.

The on-board camera of the e-puck robot can be used to make cool things, one of these is following a colored object as showed in the demo "runfollowball" contained in the e-puck library. This demo was updated to be compatible with the newer camera mounted on the robot.

GCtronic will take part at the Swiss Robotics Industry Day at EPFL. November 2nd. On display we have our 3 robots e-puck, Elisa-3 and Wheelphone. Elisa-3 will also move vertically in the Autonomous Robot Painting. Additionally we will present the ETCH Clock, now ready to sell.

The eTCH clock is now available for pre-order, have a look at www.etchclock.com for more information.

The e-puck charger (single battery) has been upgraded: you can now charge your batteries in about half the time...and at the same price. You can order the high speed charger from the shop.

After a long technical development in cooperation with 42Foundry, we are proud to show you some preview of a 3D MAGIC WATCH: eTCH wall, engraving time! video. Soon on presale!!

A new set of nice features of the elisa-3 robot are now available for the Aseba environment. To start playing easily with elisa-3 and Aseba we created a video tutorial.

To ease the setup of the elisa-3 tracking set we created a video that shows all the required steps, including the assembly of the arena, the cameras configuration and a demo showing the position control of one robot.

GCtronic participates to the European Robotics Forum, 21-23 March, Ljubljana. On the booth will be presented the new graphics of the Autonomous Robot Painting together with all the robots designed by GCtronic.

A new version of the calibration application for the Wheelphone robot is available in the wiki. This version includes images to better explain the calibration process.

Both the e-puck and elisa-3 robots are compatible with Windows 10. Refer to the elisa-3 library section of the wiki for more information. The e-puck monitor was tested in Windows 10 and an updated version of the bootloader is available in the wiki to update the robot firmware in Windows 10.

Christmas is coming and you had no time for the gifts...what to do now? You have two solutions: either go crazy in various shops or buy this great tech gift (shop). You'll for sure amaze your relatives, friends or partner with this gadget mixing art and techonology...moreover you'll have some time to relax yourself. Here is a video. For more information refer to the product page.

The fans of the e-puck robot and Arduino can now merge their projects in a single awesome project by connecting together the e-puck and Arduino. The big community around Arduino and the vast availability of shields let you extend the e-puck robot basically limitless. You can for example control the e-puck with your voice (video). For more information refer to the wiki.

If you want to experiment and improve your skills in PID controllers, now you can do it by trying to self balance the e-puck robot; you'll need only a few mechanical modifications. It is not for the faint of heart :-).
For more information refer to the wiki.

The work with ROS continues: the Elisa-3 robot is able to do SLAM on a vertical wall, here is the video; for more information refer to the wiki. Moreover you can simulate the algorithms developed for the e-puck with Webots and ROS, for more information visit the wiki.

GCtronic participates to IROS, 28 September-02 October, Hamburg. On the booth will be presented some experiments done with our robots and ROS (Robotic Operating System); we are proud to say that all our robots (e-puck, elisa and wheelphone) are compatible with ROS. Moreover you will be surprised by the new "Autonomous Robot Painting"; are you curious? Come and visit us...

ROS & e-puck. We propose the ROS (Robotic Operating System) framework to work with our e-puck robot. Exploiting the packages available from the community, we demonstrate SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) with e-puck. Go ahead and let's grow the capabilities of e-puck and map also your office ;-). For more information refer to the wiki.

Python is a widely used programming language supported by a large and comprehensive standard library. A Python library is available for the the e-puck robot, you can start playing with it following the guide in the wiki. You can find others software tools available for the e-puck robot in the following link.

An interesting project concerning the set "e-puck + gumstix extension" was developed at LIRMM / Université de Montpellier. Basically the e-puck tracks a circle and the camera image is transferred to the computer through WiFi. You can see the robot in action in this video. Moreover you can have access to the report and to the code.

Aseba is a set of tools which allow novices to program robots easily and efficiently; it is developed for Thymio robot and now is available also for the Elisa-3 robot. You can start playing with this IDE following the information in the wiki.

A nice semester project regarding the Wheelphone robot was developed at the Faculty of Informatics (Università della Svizzera italiana). The aim of the project is to use the Wheelphone to navigate in an indoor environment using an iPhone. For more information refer to the wiki page where you can find the report, code and a video.

GCtronic is continuing the long term support of the e-puck robot. The last produced batch (e-puck revisions) has a new accelerometer with even a 3D gyroscope, battery level measure, an updated camera and microphone. All is compatible with the old software/hardware versions and the library is updated and available on GNA and our wiki.

ART and ROBOTICS ! This new product combines our small robot Elisa-3 with a picture frame that you can hang on a vertical wall. Dances, light show, music, geometric figures, automatic charging, all in a compact dynamic picture frame. For more information refer to the product page and the wiki page.

The Elisa-3 robot is now equipped with infrared local communication to let the users develop their swarm algorithms. For more information refer to the Elisa-3 wiki page: Elisa-3 local communication.

GCtronic is supporting the realization of the hicon social bangle that now has an improved new design and is equipped with an OLED display to visualize the notifications. You can order it with an initial special discount: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hicon-is-all-your-social-networks-made-wearable#home.

Our small climbing robot Elisa-3 participates at IROS in Chicago at the boot of our US distributor Roadnarrows. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 14–18, 2014.

Sindex is the biggest technology exhibition of Switzerland. GCtronic will be part of the show with the partners F&P Personal Robotics and BlueBotics within the Swiss Mobile Robotics Consortium.September, 2-4, 2014. Bern, Switzerland. Special Show "Technologie erleben". Hall 1.1 Booth No. C04

A versatile joystick for animation artists. GCtronic participated to this project "puppet" done at ETH Zurich, Institute of Visual Computing, Prof. Dr. Olga Sorkine-Hornung and her group. Several media reports: ETHZ, Wired.

"hicon, the social bangle" is a new product that GCtronic helped to create. You can customize your hicon bangle with your preferred icons. It informs you with a gentle vibration when you get a call, a message or a notification from a social network (Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, ...). hicon looks for nearby people with a matching profile and your same passions. You can already order it with a huge discount: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hicon-smart-wristband-social-bracelet-with-interchangeable-social-network-icons.

GCtronic contributes to the ETHZ project "climbing robot for corrosion monitoring". A robot climbing bridges and other concrete surfaces.
[http://www.ifb.ethz.ch/corrosion/research/Robot](http://www.ifb.ethz.ch/corrosion/research/Robot ).

GCtronic participates to innorobo, 18-20 March, Lyon-France. On the booth will be presented the e-puck and related extensions, the Elisa-3 robot and the Wheelphone. All robots will be available for shop directly at the event.

GCtronic designed a full system to track the position of an Elisa-3 fleet with an IR overhead camera. The tracking set (2 camera, mechanical frame, robots, ...) is available in the [shop](http://www.gctronic.com/shop.php#Elisa-3 robot). For more information refer to the wiki.

The number of application is growing, the Wheelphone robot reaches 10 apps on the Play Store. Also the firmware was reviewed and a new update is available, refer to the wiki for detailed information about the update procedure.

The Wheelphone robot can be used to navigate from one room to the other using some tags as reference. Moreover it can charge itself thanks to the docking station. Have a look at the video; the source code of the demo can be downloaded from the wiki.

GCtronic at "La Maison du Mieux Vivre", Paris 5-7 December. Within the Trade Show for lifestyle and homecare services (www.salon-services-personne.com), the Living better house « La Maison du Mieux Vivre » promotes technological and robotics solutions for assistance, well being and security to people.

GCtronic participates to the International Robot Exhibition (IREX) in Tokyio next November 6-9. The exhibition is in parallel with the scientific conference IROS. On display we have our compact robots including Wheelphone with new applications.

During summer holidays a bunch of new applications for the Wheelphone robot were developed: transforms for example the Wheelphone in a pet robot, it will have to follow you or maybe do you need an animated alarm, for sure the Wheelphone will compel you to wake up. Visit our wiki for more apps.

Reuters interview and demo of Prof. Roderich Gross using a swarm of robot e-puck provided by GCtronic, link.

Wheelphone software resources are continuously expanding: the API to interact with the robot is now released, visit the wiki for more information.

GCtronic will be present at the Festival de robotique on 20 April 2013 at EPFL, Lausanne. The Elisa-3 and the Wheelphone will animate the booth.

A virtual model of the Elisa-3 robot has been created for the Webots simulator. You can now test and improve easily your algorithms in this professional simulator before playing with the real robots. For more information refer to the wiki.

The new Wheelphone robot designed by GCtronic is now available in the shop. Some features: compatible with Android phones, avoid obstacles, avoid falling from tables, runs on carpet, docking station, charges phone and many examples with source code available. Have a look at the officiale site www.wheelphone.com for more information.

The e-puck robot is now equipped with a new battery model that is lighter (33g) and a bit more powerful (1600 mAh).

Best whishes from GCtronic with a small Christmas video; participating robots: e-puck, Elisa-3, Wheelphone and Alice. Guess the role of each robot...

The "epic" Matlab interface developed for e-puck is now available also for Elisa-3. You can start playing with this interface following the information in the wiki.

GCtronic performed some tests of the odometry of Elisa-3. Quite good on vertical surfaces.

GCtronic designed a second hardware version of the omnivision module. The upgraded version includes an USB 2.0 camera with a greater resolution (up to 1280x1024), a dedicated microcontroller for the 3 RGB LEDS and an antireflection tube. It's interesting to notice that the e-puck camera can now be used together with omnivision camera.

GCtronic will be present at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012) in Vilamoura, Portugal. The new products will be presented: Elisa-3, the omnivision module for e-puck, the automatic charging of e-puck and Elisa-3.

A paper using Elisa has just been published on IJRR, International Journal of Robotics Research: "Image and animation display with multiple mobile robots", Javier Alonso-Mora, Andreas Breitenmoser, Martin Rufli, Roland Siegwart and Paul Beardsley. IJRR 2011 31: 753–773. Volume 31 Issue 6 - May 2012. Link to the abstract: http://ijr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/6/753. Link to the videos: http://www.ijrr.org/ijrr_2012/442095.htm.

Elisa-3, the new miniature robot of GCtronic, is present at ICRA 2012, May 14-18, St. Paul, Minnesota on the booth of RobotNarrows. A nice demo with 3 robots running around and docking autonomously to the power charger. See video section of the wiki.

e-puck with artists: the e-puck robot was used in the Think Art Act Science at the San Francisco Art Institute exhibition. The next exhibition will be held in Salt Lake City, for more information visit www.theleonardo.org. See picture1 and picture2.

The support to the Arduino community is increased: there is now an Arduino IDE 1.0 project to start playing with the Elisa-3 robot. You can now program and upload new applications easily within the Arduino IDE. Visit the Elisa-3 Arduino sofware section of the wiki for more information. More information about Arduino can be found in the official website.

The last stable firmware for the Elisa-3 robot is now released; from other things, it comprises two basic onboard behaviors: obstacle avoidance and cliff avoidance, both of them can be turned on and off through radio. Visit the Elisa-3 sofware section of the wiki for more information.
Hurry up, the special launching price is still valid only a couple of weeks.

The Elisa-3 robot upgraded its hardware: 8 small green leds and a micro USB connector are integrated on the board. The micro USB can be used for both programming and charging the robot. The robot is provided with all necessary software to start playing with it, visit the wiki for more information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here is a cool project http://www.youtube.com/user/aslteam#p/u/0/pJVS-9sMiVY developed in the Autonomous Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich together with Disney Research Zurich using the 3x3 RGB display designed at GCtronic. The project was presented at ICRA 2011 "Multi-robot system for artistic pattern formation".

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.

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.

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/.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GCtronic just started a new collaboration with Gumstix, Inc. Gumstix Overo COM: product information and programming information.

GCtronic organized an e-puck workshop at EPFL. Participants were from GCtronic, Cyberbotics, MOBOTS, LIS, DISAL and LA. Here some presentations Extensions-PC interfaces, Battery management, Molole-aseba.

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.

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.

GCtronic moved about 20 km to a new and bigger location. The new address is:
Via Cassarinetta 2
6900 Lugano
Switzerland.

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.

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.

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/.

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

The partner company Skybotix launched CoaX: a compact, lightweight indoor coaxial helicopter.

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

e-puck is used in several universities and techincal school but not only. In this picture an artistic exhibition!

New ON-LINE SHOP page is active and running. You can directly order with paypal or ask for an official offer.

Reflective strip for e-puck available: On-line shop. This is very useful for mutual detection in case of experiments with multiple robots.

Ground sensor module available. EPFL doc

Charger for 4 e-puck batteries available : On-line shop.

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.