That blog keeps amazing me with creativity! Great job!
The next features I’m adding are mobility and hands -
For mobility I’m planning on ordering the Tamiya gear - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/net_gadgeteer/archive/2012/05/03/light-sensors-control-net-gadgeteer-robot.aspx
for hands, the robotic claw from sparkfun - http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10332
I would like to try to use nanoMuscle http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8782 - but I only have 3 weeks left on the project.
I’m not liking having to use an iPhone for the video streaming (because it requires some one to answer the phone and put it in the robot suite), so I’d like to use the wi-fi module from GHI - http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/282
and streaming the camera and audio to and from - is that even possible with a spider?
Using the GHI wi-fi module will make it much easier to turn the robot into XBee gateway device (i.e. remote interaction with XBee). I need a gateway regardless.
I can’t see why not.
Paul, cool project. How about a video? If you have to abandon it in 3 weeks, I hope you’ll be able to post all your work somewhere for others to pick up on. I can see this being a fun open source project. It could really add a new level of support if in tinyclr chat, Gus could use virtual hands to lend even better support!
@ ianlee74 -
Thanks - I’ll add a video to next weeks post (not the greatest blogger yet). I’m not abandoning this one after 3 weeks, just need to keep moving quickly, this is a building block project for people to do cutting edge things with - for example using SmartGlass from XBox - E3 2012: A closer look at Xbox SmartGlass - CNET
I think this is a Cookbook project, I was going to publish at GadgeteerCookbook.codeplex.com - The Arduino cookbook is great, it breaks down scenarios very fine grained, for example, using 1 servo, using 2 servos, using a brushless motor, etc. I want to do something like that but also show composition. Show how to use a servo, have another project showing how to build a robot arm, show another how to build a me-bot. But I don’t know if more complicated projects belong in a cookbook. ultimately a me-bot should be more of a starting point than a destination. 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
please decide - GadgeteerCookbook, or a project of its own? Now that I think about it, Codeshare on TinyCLR might make more sense for cookbook code
What should the project name be? can’t be me-bot as you can’t have dashes on codeplex.
@ PaulMineau -
Gadgetar. (Groans, headdesk). I setup a project on codeplex, https://gadgetar.codeplex.com/
Sounds like a good plan. Cool name. I like it.