Robotics

I just now finished transferring a journal of my robotics work to this here WordPress site to co-habitate with my

Doh! It turns out that all I had to do to make the twitching servo problem go away was to

Bangs. Head. On. Desk. Given that there was already a perfectly good program on the micro-controller for swinging a leg

So close to having a walking robot that I can taste it… Today was equal parts assembly work and data

Alright, here we go: Acquire a miniature breadboard: check Cut, drill, and mount another aluminum sheet to serve as additional platform

So, somehow all of this electro-mechanical jumble needs to get hooked together in a way that won’t tangle or tether.

And now for something closer to the real deal, using one of the AVR’s timers to implement and steer a

Servos gotta move… That’s how this robot is gonna walk… This entails sending them a Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) signal…

25 November 2012 Alright, so years ago I purchased a micro-controller to make this robot dance, an Atmel ATtiny2313, and

I finally got around to resolving the collision problem with the leg assembly that was limiting its range of motion.

Three days ago, on a Friday morning, I stumbled across the Mid-Atlantic Rubber Company with some Google searching, a very fine company

Today the remainder of the insectronic body went together. Lesson of the day: angled aluminum is somewhat unforgiving when it

Today the insectronic chassis went together. This entailed cutting three 3 3/4″ long and two 6″ long pieces of 1/2″

Having mucked around with the band saw yesterday, it was time to give the drill press a test drive with