Hello!

While waiting for parts to be delivered, I have been working on some of the other items in the build. One of these is the Squirrel OS. To help with this process I constructed a small limited robot that has been lovingly dubbed "Turtle". The design is from thingiverse, with a modified body to fit some of PAL's internals. You can find these files here http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:152638

and here http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:772740

The small robot body took a few hours to assemble after it was all printed. Infill is 20%, so the limbs are very light weight.

The brains are a small servo controller from http://electronics.chroma.se/rpisbv3.php (purchased on ebay) and a Raspberry Pi 3B. It does not have the speech module as of yet, this is more to get the base logic working before I transfer it to the much larger robot PAL.

The resulting robot:

Eventually, it may become a pet for PAL :) He looks terrified @.@;;

I also dug out my old Futaba 6EX FASST radio to test the limits of the track system when it gets assembled. After 10 years of being buried in the closet, it needs a new battery so I will need to order one of those when I get the funds for it. I looked at other systems but the range on FASST radios is hard to beat (about 3 miles). The FHSS systems they offer in a lower price range are geared more towards park fliers and have a much shorter range. I also need to purchase a battery charger as I cannot find my old one. It was lost in a move years ago. Currently I am looking at the Triton EQ http://www.electrifly.com/chargers/gpmm3155.html

That is it for this update, I figured that I would let everyone know that this project is alive and well and one that I am determined to finish :D

Cheers!