The fundemental hurdle for "breaking into robotics"

[Robotboy86]

Besides the obvious basic knowledge required..  what does everyone believe the biggest hurdle is?  I know for me its been structure..  very difficult to make a sturdy robotic base for walking and such.

What about you?  Whats hardest?

[airman00]

I feel structure also.

Aligning the wheels and making it level are such a pain!


The hardest is when something in your program does not work and after hours of of checking you realize you put an extra 1 somewhere....
 

very difficult to make a sturdy robotic base for walking

Making a Transformer, are we now?
lol jk           

[Robotboy86]

lol, I am still walking on a four-legged robot but the base has been a constant problem.  I had a "running" base for about 4 days before the plastic cracked.  I am now looking into building the rough shape out of foam, then fiberglassing over it for strength.  I am hoping to build a base sturdy enough for some semi-long term development..  enough to make it walk properly, push objects, that kinda thing.

Oh well! I sure wish I had access to a 3d part making machine

[airman00]

pretty cool,

i hope you document it , and please post videos and pictures.


one day i'll build a walking robot... one day... 

[Admin]

I think understanding microcontrollers was/is the hardest part for me . . . so many complicated thingies in them . . .