Woa!

Last night I spent time correcting servo's and their locations on the robot. I now have everything worked out and have started working on getting basic communication with the CM-5 module and the software shipped with it.

So far little success. Am getting an error when downloading the build code into the module. I may give the brbrain software a try as it's Linux and GPL friendly.

Interesting Robot links

I was writing to a friend of mine who's doing some wicked stuff with remote controlled airplanes - check this out - and I ended up compiling some interesting links on the using the bioloid platform for interesting projects. Enjoy!

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Am going to get the last tool I need to finish it today. Will start off with the kit that it comes with to learn how the thing works and to calibrate the motors - locations, positions and such. (The directions seem to have typos in them.)

Am also reading about this right now to get started with more sophisticated control software.

SLAM For Dummies.pdf

From:

http://openslam.org/

Will probably enlarge the chest enough to get a mini or micro-itx board in there similar to Brainbot or perhaps several n800's running in a cluster running adaptive learning, visual recognition, spatial mapping and control systems. (After strpping the casing from N800's for weight reduction.)

This is going to be a blast.

Original N770 on Bioloid puppy thread
Bioloid humanoid transformer
Brainbot Voodoo control

Bioloid project

I recently embarked on a robot building project. I've posted some pics in picasa of the build sessions.

Check it out.

Bioloid Build May 14, 2009

The project is a robot that has some minimal level of intelligence to tune of photo recognition, adaptive learning and telemetric sensory softwares. It should be fun.

So far the parts consist of a Biooid kit and a Nokia N800. We are looking at using a variety of extra sensors and augmenting the basic bioloid kit considerably. Stay tuned!

- Ivan