Updates that can be seen in this video...aluminum support plates in drive boxsliding tension adjustable motor mounts1/16" kevlar control linesdoubled up u-bolt clamps to anchor control linesLumenier LU8 Pro motors closer to body10T to 18T timing belt...
Below you can see the electrical diagram with the connections of this project, it's recommended to do it patiently so as not to make mistakes because there are many cables to be connected. I suggest you not wire the servo 5, since in the tests I carried...
STEP1: Communication, sprechen sie beep boop? So a great place to start with almost any reverse engineering project is finding the UARTS. One difference with the L02 PCB vs the L01 is the lack of silk screen information besides some model info...
Used a coping saw again to cut out the bottom and top plate of the differential wheeled robot base. No human walking. Murphy is using a kind of wheel chair to move forward - or in any other direction. A plain old differential wheeled robot. Material...
Hello,So progress is quick recently! Last time we saw the robots moving under control from ROS, so the next problem for a proper closed loop system is how do you know your location. The robots do have odometry on them in the form of stepper motors, if...
Firstly, the code that worked on the Arduino uno did not work on the 3 core TC275, probably because of a speed issue, but I never found out exactly why! The new code, for CORE 1 is: ic = 0; while (ic < intervalFive) // AC 50 hertz is equivalent to 20...
Hi, I’m Simon Lynch. I work as a designer, digital manufacturer, and occasional instructor for STEAMLabs, and I’m responsible for the design of the cardboard parts that make up our robot construction kits. Our next three blog posts will deal with design...
(link to blog https://rcrobot.org/?p=106)Have you ever had a project idea sitting in your head that sounds like it'd be awesome but you just never had the motivation to do it? I've had this idea of making an First Person View (FPV) robot for LITERALLY...
Everything is better with eyes. Putting goggly eyes on things makes them instantly relatable and cute or creepy. We simply can't remain emotionally neutral to something that looks at us. So I decided that the robots need faces. Of course I could have...
The goal of this series of articles is to create a compact indoor robot that can navigate using stereo vision. As a platform for it, we’ll use a small Dagu RP5 platform on tracks that we have. Here’s how it looks like next to the StereoPi.Detailed TL;DR...
Disclaimer: The code below is just a concept. Helpers to build out the frame structure. Namings will changeI am still working out the code to make the Thor robot move in very fluent moves. The challenge is that we have 7+ stepper motors!The stepper motor...
This is it. It's over. It's done. I'm writing this on August 1st, right after getting home from Def Con. All badges were deployed, I'm not getting sued by the creators of Mr. Robot, and everyone loved my work. I'm going to use this project log entry...
In order to balance our little guy, we’re going to read in data from our inertial measurement unit (IMU), create a PID controller to catch the robot from falling, and write an accurate stepper motor controller from scratch. We’ll also read in commands...
The robot was able to pick up a piece of debris during our latest field test at Cherry Beach in Toronto, ON. Video hereWe brought together a team of volunteers for the field test crew, and organised into subteams to be able to complete the tasks!There...