Well after three years of trying, two jobs due to the economy going belly up, several design changes and a bout with cancer. I have finally finished
Origen!
Height: 17 ins
Weight: Have not weighed him yet, but I suspect he’ll be around 4 lbs.
DOF: 20 (8 in the arms and shoulder,10 in the legs, 2 in the hips for rotation)
Servos: 8 Hitec 5980 SG, 12 Hitec 5990 TG
CPU: V-Stone VSRC003
Sensors: 1 Gyro Sensor/Acceleration Sensor, 2
Controller: VS-RC003 conversion connector for PS2 game pad
Motion editor: RobovieMaker2
Battery: 7.4V 2800mAh-Ni-H with express battery charger
Now to get on with programming. Videos coming soon.
Now that is a biped! that has to be the best one I have seen built using lynxmotion brackets! what will the camera be for? will there be any object tracking?
I really can’t wait to see it walk. have you thought about entering it in the contest?
Thanks for the comments. Yes the camera will be for tracking. Once I come with a better pan/tilt. Right now it is just stationary. One cool thing about the V-Stone CPU is that it has 10 programmable channels and an expasion board for other sensors, so I can switch between a fighting robot, to an autonomous soccer bot and then to a controllable soccer bot.
But Emachines wanted like $756, to get it done, so I tried the original design and they wanted the same thing, so my buddies kid thought his vex camera looked better and gave that to me as a Christmas present.
And yeah, there are only 20 servos. You might there is one on the head axis.
The holes actually line up with the holes on the bottom of the camera, I just bored them out a little for the screws to fit. And the horn is now attached to a c-bracket, but will soon be replaced with a servo for panning.
Hello, I’m new here.
About that head of yours…
Have you tried 3d printing?
You can upload a CAD model and they’ll make it and send it to you!
Try Shapeways - it’s probably the cheapest one. Your model, assuming that it won’t be that big, won’t cost more than $70.
That is actually a very nice prototype of a good quality made robot. Maybe it just needs some enhancements and development in its outer body. I will be waiting for your videos too.
Great biped! It looks like a very clean build. I’d like to see how you’ll program object tracking into the vex camera. I have one just like it and would like to learn how to someday.
I made that post about a year ago, I have been busy. You know Grown-up stuff, work and a girlfriend that is less geeky than I am. He’s been sitting on a shelf for quite sometime now. I work in the Tech field and last thing I want to do is turn on a computer when I get home. I may be starting a new job soon that is less hectic and ending my relationship with the less geeky girlfriend and will probably be getting back to programming motions this summer.
If this happens I will be adding new posts with improvements to him and of course videos.
