Society of Robots - Robot Forum
General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Cyntrox on June 22, 2011, 07:00:51 PM
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Hello everybody. Introducing my first robot :P
Since I just made my robot not crash into walls, I figured I'd make an appearance on this site, since I'd been using it for a long time anyways.
It's sort-of based on the beginner robot here, and a little bit on the letsmakerobots.com beginner robot.
(http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/4030/photoon20110623at0222.jpg)
(http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/2223/photoon20110623at02222.jpg)
(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3851/photoon20110623at0258.jpg)
(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6026/photoon20110623at02582.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZXxnXWlBQI#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZXxnXWlBQI#ws)
It's got a chassis made out of part polymorph granules, part rubber band and part "borrowed" chopsticks.
It's got a 9v battery to run the uC and 5 1.2v batteries to run the motors.
It's based on an Atmega168. An old schematic (not including the servo and IR sensor) can be found here. (http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/617/schematic.png)
I guess I will do some more improvements on this before moving on to something else - for example, the QRT-1A IR sensor I'm using doesn't seem to have quite the range I'm looking for.
Any comments on the design are welcomed :)
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Good job!
And here's your video because it didn't link properly in your post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZXxnXWlBQI#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZXxnXWlBQI#ws)
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Thanks, and fixed :P
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Nice use of shapelock there! I have the same motors that you do but I have been puzzling about how to mount them to things. You solved my problem, im gonna break open my old bag of polymorph again ;D
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Hah, I didn't expect anyone to actually take inspiration from my little 'bot... Awesome! ;D
I just heated the polymorph and sort of pressed it against the motors 'till they got the right shape, then I attached them to the main body by using a lighter. You can see the burn marks :P