Youtube BRAT video from our very own Seamus!

Here is a video I found by accident. :smiley: It looks very nice.

youtube.com/watch?v=FfsJqwfj88Q&NR=1

Thanks. I was going to post a link to the ā€œfirst stepsā€ video clip, but then I did some work on the stepping sequence, cleaned it up a bit, etc., and figured I’d post a clip with a somewhat ā€œprettierā€ gait than that one.

That, and it’s just a raw clip from the camera - I need to see about firing up the editing software, and shooting some cleaner video.

Thanks for the recognition!

Nice Couch! :smiley:

It doesn’t look rough to me… You did a really great job with the build and the gait. 8)

My only suggestion would be to paint the silver U channel black. :slight_smile:

It looked awesome to me. Very well done. Was this running off the wiport?

From the video information:
ā€œControl is through a Bluetooth module from SparkFun Electronics, feeding commands to a Lynxmotion SSC-32 servo controller board.ā€

:wink:

Wow,i see nothing wrong with that video.
Oh and how do you know that was Seamus’s Video?

Yes, as mentioned above (and in the comment section), the remote side is a BlueSMiRF module (with RP-SMA connector and 2.2 dBi ā€œrubber duckyā€ antenna). The base side of the link is an MSI StarKey USB bluetooth dongle, connected to a notebook that’s running the SEQ software.

After working with the BRAT configuration a bit more, I’m pretty sure that I’ll be adding at least a couple more axes to get a little more flexibility out of it.

I’m still pretty ambivalent about walking as a means of robot locomotion; it’s just too complex and resource-heavy for my liking, but that won’t keep me from playing around with it for a while. If nothing else, a walker - particularly a biped - has a lot more ā€œgee whizā€ factor than most other designs, since coaxing a machine to get up and walk around is something that’s recognizably difficult to do, even if you know nothing about electrical and mechanical control systems.

Besides: It’s an SES project. If I decide that I’ve ā€œplayed outā€ on bipeds, I can always disassemble it and turn it into something else later. :wink:

Perhaps it was the username… SeamusTheTinker :wink:

Sorry,
i just noticed the user name :laughing: