I just wanted to thank Lynxmotion for donating the BRAT kits to CIRC for the 2010 Bot Brawl. I teamed up with James and his friend to win the 3lb competition and they let me keep the BRAT kit as our 1st place prize (since he didn’t really need one ). I’ve got it all put together and I’ve been playing around with Atom Pro IDE to make the servos jump around until the sequencer program gets here in the mail.
Keep up the good work guys! and Thanks again!!
and “Fish” we’ll have to fight some robots again that was awesome!
It was a super busy spring of classes after the Bot Brawl, so I didn’t get to do much with my Brat until lately. I haven’t done anything suuuper awesome with it yet, but I did bring him in to help me at work.
I modified the servo offset program so that I could manually position 4 servos on a test rig for a helicopter like mechanism. I changed to program to use pins 0-3, allow full servo range of movement, save the positions to another location, and move continously at an increasing rate if the decrement/increment button is held down. I’ll be getting to more sophisticated control & inverse kinematics later on, but for now using the Bot Board and just adding a few lines of code was a great simple go-between.
The picture also shows some Microrax I used to make a 4 servo “tower.” I wanted to use SES pieces to mount the servos, but I needed to get them in tighter. I was able to mount the servos directly to the Microrax profiles by taking about .05" off the side (the screw spacing with the T nuts matches, but the body of the servo runs into the edge of the profile beam). Can’t wait to see what you guys end up doing with that stuff, thanks for letting everybody know about it when you found it.
). I’ve got it all put together and I’ve been playing around with Atom Pro IDE to make the servos jump around until the sequencer program gets here in the mail.
