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Title: What are you working on?
Post by: awally88 on September 16, 2007, 12:53:29 AM
Hey all,

Out of interest I wondering what sorts of robots everyone is making.
Feel free to post photos or videos!

Awally88
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: h3ro on September 16, 2007, 04:04:22 AM
Trying to make the 50$ robot, but it takes for ever to get the parts from sparkfun. I ordered from sparkfun and digi-key at the same time, got the parts from digi-key a week ago. Hope to get the stuff early this week.

Looking forward to see what people are doing :)
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: Ro-Bot-X on September 16, 2007, 04:07:35 AM
I'm working on this:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1764.0 (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1764.0)
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: MadMax on September 16, 2007, 04:11:28 AM
My first robot, a Quadruped, still busy in buying stuff, planning stuff etc.
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: airman00 on September 16, 2007, 12:37:02 PM
making Chives (my butler robot) easier to have a conversation with and buying/installing sensors...
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: JesseWelling on September 16, 2007, 02:04:18 PM
Robo-Magellan style robot. Mostly studying algorithms for path-finding and object avoidance. Little bit of study on localization.
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: jklv on September 17, 2007, 01:14:59 AM
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: Admin on September 17, 2007, 06:38:49 AM
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I ordered from sparkfun and digi-key at the same time, got the parts from digi-key a week ago. Hope to get the stuff early this week.
Sparkfun has twice lost my orders. Send them an email after a week or two if you think something is wrong - their customer service has been really nice and fixed the problem for me both times asap.

robots Im working on? hmmmm . . .
robot fish
mapping robot (trying to improve it)
experimental robot platform - trying to get it to play fetch, have emotions, camera vision, robot arm, etc
carpet monkey - has a unique method of locomotion, sorta like legs and wheels combined

I never learn to build only one at a time, its my weakness to multitask too much . . .
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: Rebelgium on September 17, 2007, 09:12:10 AM
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I never learn to build only one at a time, its my weakness to multitask too much . . .
Doesn't sound like that big of a weakness to me...

I'm working on a treaded robot. It's going to be my base for future projects to.
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: Admin on September 17, 2007, 10:34:52 AM
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Doesn't sound like that big of a weakness to me...
It causes a lack of focus. If you have three robots, you can only spend 1/3rd your time on each. Takes 3x longer to get stuff done, etc.

There is an advantage however when two robots share the same technology/parts/programming . . .
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: jklv on September 17, 2007, 10:50:48 AM
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Doesn't sound like that big of a weakness to me...
It causes a lack of focus. If you have three robots, you can only spend 1/3rd your time on each. Takes 3x longer to get stuff done, etc.

There is an advantage however when two robots share the same technology/parts/programming . . .
Admin hows the UUV for the navy?
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: Admin on September 17, 2007, 11:04:46 AM
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Admin hows the UUV for the navy?
its coming along . . . i hope to have it swimming about before the end of this year . . . its much harder when you need to do real science and truely understand/optimize your robot, and not just make something that 'just works' . . .
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: jklv on September 17, 2007, 03:47:48 PM
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Admin hows the UUV for the navy?
its coming along . . . i hope to have it swimming about before the end of this year . . . its much harder when you need to do real science and truely understand/optimize your robot, and not just make something that 'just works' . . .
Niice, I bet you will be in the next episode of Future Weapons ;) Man How does it feel to be in such important project?
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: Admin on September 17, 2007, 05:34:27 PM
haha no I dont think its that important . . . i wont know how important it is till tons of people copy and one-up my work decades later . . .
Title: Re: What are you working on?
Post by: jklv on September 18, 2007, 09:50:23 PM
haha no I dont think its that important . . . i wont know how important it is till tons of people copy and one-up my work decades later . . .
don't be shy admin ;)