This is my current project and the robot I’ll be taking to Lego World. Tammy took these pictures for me. Click on them to see a much bigger version. It has 2 Zamor canons, 4 Rotacaster wheels, HiTechnic Gyro and Acceleration Sensors and a Lego Sonar sensor. It’s programmed in [...]
My next project with the omniwheel is to have it react to bumping into things that it encounters on its journey. I want to use the HiTechnic Accelerometer to do it, the Mindsensors one is currently being used in another project. I’ve been racking my brain for about 2 days [...]
The “Minifig Vomit Mobile” is what my friend Marc-Andre called the omniwheel I took the video of. I felt that in order for that name to be more accurate, I had to add a minifig to the robot, so here he is, on the left. Unfortunately, this one has no [...]
Literally. The omniwheel is capable of going in any direction you want, it can also rotate on the spot. So I thought, why not combine the two and make it rotate and move? After picking Brian Davis’ sizable brain about using a gyro as a means to calculate a heading, [...]
The Rotacaster wheels are not only great for making holonomic robotic platforms but also for the more mundane robotics models such as the one pictured above. This is a simple construction meant to illustrate the idea. The advantage of using a wheel like this over a standard caster wheel is [...]
I made a quick video to show off the Rotacaster wheels. As you can see traction is really great. I will do further testing on various surfaces. The wheels’ small size give you great control when directly driving them from the motor; there is no need for additional gearing down. [...]
This morning the mailman had another package for me! It was a padded envelope with nothing less than the 4 Technic axle compatible holonomic wheel prototypes from Rotacaster. I haven’t had a chance to build anything with them but my first impressions are: Very compact, they’re about 3.5 units wide [...]
My good friend Eric likes to build big. He is one of the designers and builders of the High Bay Storage System. A while back he told he wanted to build a tracked vehicle. He’s done this before, of course: Very nice, right? Not satisfied with this Lilliputian-sized tank (actual [...]
I’ve uploaded a new release of the ROBOTC Driver Suite. Version 1.5 has a couple of nice changes: Newly added: Drivers for Dexter Industries dFlex, dPressure and temp probe Test program for Mindsensors Touch Sensor MUX with HiTechnic Sensor MUX Driver for additional timers in ROBOTC Documentation changes: All drivers [...]
It seems balancing robots are all the rage now. Laurens Valk made one that even hit the Make: Magazine’s blog. It just so happened that Gus from HiTechnic was thinking the same thing a few weeks ago and has made one as well. It’s a different model and also works [...]
Copyright © 2013 Bot Bench. All Rights Reserved.
RSS Feed
Contact
Twitter
Facebook
Linkedin
YouTube
Comments