GCtronic

Address:

Via Cassarinetta 2
6900 Lugano
Switzerland

Contact:

Gilles Caprari
phone: +41 78 601 11 13
email: g.caprari@ieee.org
www.gctronic.com

Year of foundation:

2006

Number of employees:

3

Keywords:

Educational robotics, miniature robotics, embedded systems, wearable technology, IoT

Company profile:

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!

Products and services:

# e-puck educational miniature robot.
Fully open source, e-puck is used for education and research at university level. In 7 cm diameter it has several sensor, actuators and communication options as well optional extensions.

  • sensors: 8 proximity, 3D acc, 3D gyro, VGA color Camera, 3 microphones, IR TV receiver, mode selector
  • actuators: 2 step motors, 8 + 3 +1 LED, loudspeaker
  • communication: serial comm, debugging, Bluetooth, WiFi (with Linux board)
  • extension: Range and Bearing, Linux board, omnicamera, Webots simulator, ground sensors and automatic charging


# Elisa-3 climbing miniature robot.
With only 5 cm in diameter, Elisa-3 can climb vertical ferromagnetic walls. Is based on an Arduino processor to ease the development.

  • sensors: 8 proximity, 3D acc, 4 ground prox , IR TV receiver, mode selector, charging status
  • actuators: 2 magnetic wheels on DC motors, 1 RGB with diffuser, 8 LED, automatic charging
  • communication: uUSB for programming, debugging and charging; fast 2.4GHz comm (100 robots @ 10Hz)


# Wheelphone, the symbiosis of a robot and a smartphone
Plug any smartphone on our Wheelphone basis and you get a powerful robots for telepresence, surveillance, inspection, edutainment, gadget, companion…

  • The basis has what the phone misses: locomotion, proximity and ground sensors, auto charging
  • Our open source Apps pave the way to any usage: navigation, ROS, remote piloting, face detection, docking, tag recognition, vision, ..


# product development:

  • compact and embedded mechatronics systems for industry, entertainment, art, education,…
  • mobile robotics applications
  • Wearable Technology and Internet of Things