RoboCat - a shop front display robot
@ July 1, 2011
Entertains children
Recently DAGU developed some educational cardboard robot kits. To promote these kits we built a child sized version and added some simple IR sensors so that the robot could turn to face you when you are in range.
The robot was designed by Cathy Star, you can see her with her creation in the photo and video. The robot is controlled by DAGU's beginners robot controller. This is an Arduino compatible controller using an ATmega8A loaded with the Arduino bootloader.
@ Sat, 2011-07-02 15:27
That is brilliant.The
That is brilliant.
The "wobble" gives it a sort of life-like quality :-)
@ Sat, 2011-07-02 13:45
I like it. Just needs to
I like it. Just needs to walk around a bit now.
@ Sat, 2011-07-02 17:07
Easier said than done. Even
@ Sat, 2011-07-02 13:19
There is nothing fancy
@ Sat, 2011-07-02 10:56
That is actually pretty kewl.
May I ask how the joints were actuated? If you recall or have been paying attention, Dan M was trying to find a child resistant way of driving the neck of his robot. He tried a friction based method, but, found it was not quite reliable enough.
@ Fri, 2011-07-01 13:33
Cute!
Cute!
@ Sat, 2011-07-02 13:20
Cathy or the robot? :-p
@ Sun, 2011-07-03 05:40
Yes. ; j
Yes. ; j