The way we walk...
This is an attempt to build a walking biped with only 4 servos, since that's what I have left right now. Since I don't have any video recording equipment right now, I'll try to describe how it walks. It start by tilting left to put all the wight on the left foot and lift the right foot. This is done by turning the left foot servo to the left, while turning the right foot to the right to support the robot as far as possible in the tilt, like this:
When the left servo turns further to the left, the weight will be on the left foot and the right leg will be lifted:
After the leg has been lifted, the robot will use the other two servos to move it forward. At this point, I always reach out for it, because it looks like it's going to fall:
Next step might be to add a gyro or acceleratometer, so it might adjust itself, if it's going to fall.
The "brain" is an Arduino that is mounted on a perf board. Only port 0-7 are connected because, the Arduino designers have, in their infinite wisdom placed the connector for port 8-13 half a unit from the 0-7 connector, so it won't fit on a standard perf board.
I'll add a video next week, when I get my hands on a camera that can record video (no, there is no camera in my phone and my webcam doesn't work)
UPDATE: Video available.
really impressive, i like
brilliant!
Very nice. Definitely want
Very nice. Definitely want to see video of it walking.
Isn't that a weird that they chose to add that little gap between pins 8-9? It would be so much easier to make clean, more permanent installations if they maintained the spacing. I'm still looking for a good way to integrate the Arduino into a circuit when I need to use more than 8 I/O pins. I considered simply desoldering all of the female headers from the Arduino and soldering in a ribbon cable or something instead. In my current project, I'm trying to fit it all inside a small project enclosure that's barely bigger than the Arduino itself, so I might resort to that for this one. Or I guess you can always build an Arduino circuit from scratch on perfboard.
Dan
Looks awesome! Looking
Looks awesome! Looking forward to seeing it do the walk... though from the pictures it looks like it might have been sipping a bit too much from that wine glass ;-).
- Jimmy
Video! Congrats, btw - this
Video! Congrats, btw - this is our first 2-legged walker in here!! Video!!
/ Fritsl
Video has been uploaded.
Wow - cool way to walk!!!/
Wow - cool way to walk!!!
/ Fritsl
Thanks. The second video
very nice movies =P gratz