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A project log for The Motivation Project

or How to Build a Robot with only a basic knowledge of robotics

gumballrabbitgumballrabbit 07/29/2015 at 16:530 Comments

Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries

Creating a robot can be a challenge in itself. What with not only gathering the materials and parts for the build of the robot but also programming it with the necessary commands to control it, it is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and far from cheap especially to young students who work at sandwich shops.

So why build a robot in the first place?

To put it this way, to prove that I can actually finish a project that implements programming.

To fellow Cognitive Scientists, to study motor cognition as embodied through a machine.

That's right. I actually want to apply what I learned in COGS: Robots and Embodied Cognition in real-life using cheaper materials.

Sure I could have used the microcontroller boards used during class but the Arduino offers more resources and more focus on the motor-controlled basis of robotics.

It's a good exercise.

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