Cardboard Walker Bot~ Oddbot's Robot Video Competition

Posted on 09/06/2009 by zigbotting
Modified on: 13/09/2018
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* AtMega 88 Custom made Development board* Exacto-cut coardboard from a shipping box I received earlier* Coardboard painted with Rustoleum Paint (making it look plasticy)* (2) infrared emitters and an infrared receiver for object detection* (2) micro servos for tilt and stride and (3) others for stepping and pivoting* Piezospeaker in body underneath battery pack* Power switch located adjacent to battery pack* FTDI 232RL mini USB programming port* (4) AA batteries for 6v power supply* Blue power indicator ...


Cardboard Walker Bot~ Oddbot's Robot Video Competition

* AtMega 88 Custom made Development board
* Exacto-cut coardboard from a shipping box I received earlier
* Coardboard painted with Rustoleum Paint (making it look plasticy)
* (2) infrared emitters and an infrared receiver for object detection
* (2) micro servos for tilt and stride and (3) others for stepping and pivoting
* Piezospeaker in body underneath battery pack
* Power switch located adjacent to battery pack
* FTDI 232RL mini USB programming port
* (4) AA batteries for 6v power supply
* Blue power indicator LED

 

 

Vote for me for Oddbot's "Robot Video Competition"! I really have been eyeing his robot "Junior" since he first started it. And I hope that I can have the privledge of working with it.

 

The chassis was simply one of these guys cut up:

 

The Servos I got from a past project, all LEDs from various things I took apart (VCRs, Computers, Remotes, etc.) Piezospeaker from a toy train that was broken, both IR emitters were 47Hz from remotes I believe if my memory serves me well. I whipped out my spectrum analyzer, and I think it was 47Hz, so then I bought two receivers within that range and whipped up a circuit.

 

So the only things I actually bought was the Atmega88, 2 IR receivers, and PCB, totalling a whopping  $18.00 for a potentially expensive projectusually in the 100s for servos alone.

 

The PCB company I used is a local one, however probably the cheapest I have ever seen, it has a tutorial on converting from Eagle to Gerber (what the machine uses) so everything is easy as (math joke :D). 

Here it is: http://www.procyonpcb.com/

 

The PCB was a good $8.00, very well spent

Truly a budget bot

 

 

 

 

Walk around

  • Actuators / output devices: 5 HS-55
  • Control method: none
  • CPU: Atmega-88
  • Power source: 4 AA
  • Programming language: C++
  • Sensors / input devices: none
  • Target environment: inddor
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