Work Robot

Hello

I have been scrounging junk again!  -lol

I'm still working on my Jansen walker project, but found this mechanical thingy (junk) at my job and was told I could have it.

( sorry for the crappy pictures, my phone camera sucks!  -lol )

My coworkers find the concept of making robots from their junk very interesting and they are following along with my build.

As such I've been allowed to work on this robot WHILE being on the clock paid at work!

Granted I have to mess with it in my free time, but still.....

I chopped up the PCB to remove the 298 motor driver and unscrewed the 141:1 gear motors.

It also has a 293 chip on it as well as a third gear motor not shown.

Then broke out the hot glue gun and electrical tape to make the start of a simple robot chassis using only junk my work would otherwise throw away.

The rollers are permanently mounted on the motor shafts. Since I had no wheels I could scrounge. I used blue electrical tape to make them a larger diameter. The tail caster is a piece of PVC tubing hot glued on. The frame is 2 drawer separators hot glued together then electrical taped for color contrast.

Here I'm starting the wiring to get this critter up and running!

More updates to follow the next time I'm at work!  (seriously how amazing is it to get to build a robot at work!)