Saturday, January 18, 2014

Weird legged PCB Robot

This is a simple but weird robot build entirely with veroboards (stripboards).
The robot is standing on two free running wheels and it has two legs that are pushing it like a small cart.
Characteristics
  • CPU: Basic Stamp 2. Board of Education
  • Motion: Two legs with 3 degrees of freedom each (Each leg looks like a PUMA manipulator, without the end effector tool). Two free running wheels are used at the frontend (no extra motors).
  • Motors: Six small servomotors (1.5 Kg). Three motors on each leg.
  • Sensors:
    • Eyes: Two infrared transceivers at the front, for object avoidance.
    • Ears: Two microphones. Capability to detect sound direction.

Soccer and Sumo Robot???

OK, this is a new design I am working on. It's a small robot with a kicking mechanism, a grip and a lot of other cool stuff (e.g. BlueTooth and the ability to control it with an Android app, the ability to charge it to a charging base and much more). This is the prototype and I built it for the tests. Curently I am working on the new improved PCB's
It is Arduino based
I have also some thoughts of implementing a txtzyme style language or a visual style programming using Blockly (or maybe I will combine those two techniques)