Monthly Archives: March 2011

The challenge didn’t quite get completed and it certainty didn’t go to plan but it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed every minuet of the frantic building. Review In review I feel I should address why I originally … Continue reading →

I want to control the robot from python, to allow me quick and easy prototyping as well as debugging. I plan to use the arduino as a serial bridge between the python code and the servos. This must have been … Continue reading →

The robot is now built !!!! It took at lot of hardwork but it is finally standing assembled and ready for programming. The good news is able to stand freely as in the photo. The bad news is it does … Continue reading →

After de-boxing all the servos, getting charitable donations from other robots and finding enough screws to hold the whole lot together the build gets under-way. The chassis servos and brackets are fitted first, due to time I am salvaging some … Continue reading →

Just a quick post pinpoint restarting again. I have just run the arduino servo_sweep example application on each servo in the leg. The leg moves quite well unsupported, the hip motor in the chassis sounded a bit more stressed than … Continue reading →

The first leg constructed !!!!! Now its built I am very concerned how far the first 2 hip servos stick out. I think that the servo will struggle trying to support the whole leg. It looks like its going to … Continue reading →

With the 3D printer out of action its on to build the legs from alu sheet. There are a lot of parts this time an entire A4 sheet of them…thats a lot of cutting and drilling!!! And here is the … Continue reading →

With my 3D printer failing badly with large prints its now back to the drawing board. First port of call is to build the chassis. I still have the design, so with a bit of layout projection and tinkering I … Continue reading →

After the issuse faced with openscad, I turned to the one place to save me google. Luckly it turned up a tutorial on how to use meshlab (an open source modeler application) to import multiple stls and move them into … Continue reading →

In attempting to print more that one bracket at once I have tried to use open scad to load in multiple stl files and rearrange. import_stl(“Servo BracketOutsideLongV1.1.stl”); translate([10,10,0]) rotate([0,0,180]) import_stl(“Servo BracketOutsideLongV1.1.stl”); translate([70,0,0]){ import_stl(“Servo BracketOutsideLongV1.1.stl”); translate([10,10,0]) rotate([0,0,180]) import_stl(“Servo BracketOutsideLongV1.1.stl”); } bracket … Continue reading →