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Dimensional Ultralancer: Vulcan Five Progress Update

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By thesaxmachine

January 28, 2010
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Just a little update on the progress of Vulcan Five.

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Part of my robot workshop.  The rest of it is in the basement.

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Robot assistant Tanpopo posing with Vulcan Five.

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Oscilloscope set up ready to debug.

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11.1V 360mAh lipo.  It is a nice size and pretty light too.  Cause of it's low capacity, I will have to charge it after every match probably.  Thats why I bough two.

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Baby Orangatan size comparison with chassis.

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Mock fitting of battery and control board.

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I made a modification to the inserts so that I can install and remove them easier which makes fixing stuff on the inside easier.

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With the inserts removed here is a picture of the belt and pulley setup.

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The AVR Dragon is what I will be using to program the Baby Orangatan through ISP.  Just downloaded and installed AVR Studio and WINAVR.  Time to get programming.

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These will be my object detection.  Keep checking back for updates :D.

Project: 
Dimensional Ultralancer: Vulcan Five - Sumobot

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By dent
@ Sat, 2010-01-30 06:07
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This is a really cool robot! But why can't you put both bateries in wired in parallel to have twice the runtime? I see a nice space on the other side of the bot, just waiting to be used. :)
By thesaxmachine
@ Sat, 2010-01-30 10:19
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I'm thinking about it.  I'm in the process of designing the top part of the robot which will be the actual PCB.  It doesn't hurt to put and extra battery input in parallel anyways since it won't affect anything if it isn't used.
By BoBBy
@ Sat, 2010-01-30 19:30
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Dont do it. When your battery pack will run out of energy, you wont have another pack to replace.
By FingerTech Robotics
@ Mon, 2010-02-01 20:11
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Those small lipo batteries are so cheap, you can have two extra sets on hand.
By thesaxmachine
@ Mon, 2010-02-01 21:15
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Are you implying I should buy more batteries from you ? ;)
By FingerTech Robotics
@ Mon, 2010-02-01 21:27
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I implying (actually stating quite plainly) that those batteries are so cheap you could hang them off your christmas tree because real decorations are probably more expensive.  :)
By thesaxmachine
@ Mon, 2010-02-01 21:55
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I could probably power the xmas lights with them too.
By FingerTech Robotics
@ Thu, 2010-01-28 18:51
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How many IR LEDs and receivers will you be using?  And where on the bot?
By thesaxmachine
@ Thu, 2010-01-28 19:29
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I plan to make 6 modules.  Three in the front two on the sides and one in the back.  But I think i might cut that down depending on how well they work.  I could make it work with 4.
By BoBBy
@ Sat, 2010-01-30 19:29
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Im afraid that those sensors wont be enough. In sumo you need pretty long range (about 100cm thats ~3ft i think). You will have to overamp leds (but it should be safe, unless you wont switch them on for longer than few dozens of miliseconds, just flash them at 36khz or whatever frequency your sensor is).