Robot-y progress
Dec. 18th, 2010 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jojomojoI finally have the new version of my tankbot working autonomously. I think I'm going to call him Grommit.
Video
Picture of it a little earlier here
Still needs plenty of work, though. One of the motor driver circuit boards is loose because I need to find some more standoffs from somewhere to remount it. There's no power switch (I physically unplug the battery to make it stop). The motors at the back aren't terribly secure and tend to ride up. There's way too many cables for my liking (most of that's the Kinect cable). Both the battery (a giant fuckoff 3100 NiMH jobby that's running most of the length of the tank chassis) and the Kinect need to be secured so it's not bouncing around so much in motion. I also need to electrical-tape all the bare wires.
Still, it's functionally now about where it was with the previous netbook-based version, except with (hopefully) longer battery life, a nice modern Atom processor, a Kinect instead of stereo webcams, and an ArbotiX so I can attach servos and sensors. There's even a little breadboard!
Video
Picture of it a little earlier here
Still needs plenty of work, though. One of the motor driver circuit boards is loose because I need to find some more standoffs from somewhere to remount it. There's no power switch (I physically unplug the battery to make it stop). The motors at the back aren't terribly secure and tend to ride up. There's way too many cables for my liking (most of that's the Kinect cable). Both the battery (a giant fuckoff 3100 NiMH jobby that's running most of the length of the tank chassis) and the Kinect need to be secured so it's not bouncing around so much in motion. I also need to electrical-tape all the bare wires.
Still, it's functionally now about where it was with the previous netbook-based version, except with (hopefully) longer battery life, a nice modern Atom processor, a Kinect instead of stereo webcams, and an ArbotiX so I can attach servos and sensors. There's even a little breadboard!
