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A Robots' night out
Welcome to this
the first edition of the happenings with the RoboNz group.
| Friday night was a great night for all
bots and beer (humans optional), Mikael brought
along his hexapod and Brody helped to make sure its wires
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| The hexapod runs off a tethered power
supply and laptop. It was a treat to see it walk
about, and to see how it can change direction without
turning first.
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| The humans that were sober, Mhex2 obliged
by bringing a cold beer and with good ground clearance,
so in theory, it could bring a cold beverage to you in
the park. And each leg is driven by two servos giving 2
DOF per leg.
It also did well in a mini robot war.
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| And with all the discusions floating
about, Keith managed to fix his balancing bot, back to
the way he had it months ago. It utilizes a Signal
processor, two second hand Faulhaber motors, the same motors Keith
used on his pathfinder, for the RoboOlympics and as such the PWM on
the motors are very audible.
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| On the other hand, Curtis brought in a
four rotor flier, which was evident that any
in-experienced person, within a few seconds could get to
grips with it. The flier uses two mechanical
gyroscopes, and is has a tethered power supply at the
moment.
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| Once the pilot was familiar, thoughts go
out to turn it into a possible robot. Adding a LiPo
battery and custom circuitry could mean that it could fly
itself or maybe with a dual antenna reciever means that
if the joystick was pulled towards you, the flier would
fly to you, without the need for a compass.
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| Keith asked a few questions about this
particular flier, and then afterwards it was decided to
bring a few bots into the picture, Keith with his KBBot,
Mikael with his hexapod, and just a little extra, Gary
put a Solarbotics kit into the frame. This what robot
wars is suppose to be, automonous fighting bots, not
tethered by an R/C set.
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It was even more fun
seeing this group have a REAL robot battle, of sorts.
Towards the end of the evening, we all
took a closer look at all the robots like Mhex2, and even
a little solar powered bot.
Damon, Keith, Paul, Brody, Mikael, Gary,
also talked with Curtis who brought the flier in to show
us, and how with an invention of his, we could rejuvenate
and extend the life of old rechargeable batteries (there
are limitations).
See videos here in the gallery
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