to mark as completed W.A.L.T.E.R. v1.x
W.A.L.T.E.R. is my experimental and learning robot platform and will never be complete.
This is the first robot I built, back in 2006 - W.A.L.T.E.R.. It was named by a friend of mine and became the Wheeled Autonomous Learning Terrain Exploring Rover. I originally called him Octabot due to his shape. V1.x used a Basic Micro Basic Atom microcontroller and a few Servo Erector Set brackets from Lynxmotion. He was completely driven by continuous rotation servos and was based on the Octabot II kit from Budget Robotics.
- Actuators / output devices: Two servos for a pan/tilt sensor head
- Control method: fully autonomous
- CPU: Basic Micro Basic Atom on a Lynxmotion Atom Bot Board
- Power source: One 7.2V@2800mAH NiMH battery pack for servos and one 7.2V@2000mAH NiCad battery pack for electronics
- Programming language: Basic Micro's dialect of BASIC
- Sensors / input devices: There Sharp IR and one PING ultrasonic sensor