Re: TI-H: cool

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Re: TI-H: cool


Robot Builder's Bonanza: 99 Inexpensive Robotics Projects is a pretty
old book, but I've read it cover to cover probably 25 times. You'll
have to do some work to adapt anything in there but it is a great
resource and some of the mechanical hints are still very useful.
Its ISBN 0-8306-0800-1 and written by Gordon McComb. The other
'bible' of the hobby robotics world is "Mobile Robots" written by
Anita M. Flynn and Joe Jones. I think Anita is still teaching at
the MIT AIL. Thats ISBN 1-56881-011-3. You can probably get both
from amazon.com.

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I still have my old robo site (from the summer of '96 when I built
my first real robo) up at http://www.flash.net/~bryanr/robot/
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I'm going to post details about my second summer project (after
the E2 is finished, and it is pretty damn close now) on that site
soon.

By the way -- bridges.edu has had a DNS failure. Somebody over there
can't setup a named... so use http://eii.home.ml.org/ for the E2
site. That'll always point at a working mirror.

Bryan

SMC12 wrote:
> 
> Please tell what book!  This could get interesting =).  Just to bring it
> back on the subject of TI-H, it would probably be possible to control it
> using the light flasher for the 85?
> 
> >Well, It depends on the complexity. My first bot was a simple two motor
> walker
> >that uses a 4 unit Nervous Network to drive the legs. It took about a month
> to
> >make, but that was because it took forever to find good gear boxes or wait
> for
> >parts to come. I spent less than a week however actualy working on it. It
> was
> >actualy quite simple, and it worked the first time I gave it power! (a
> little
> >adjust ment was required, and I later upgraded it, but it did start working
> immediately)!!!
> >
> >My current bot has all the mechanical aspects completed, except for feet,
> >which also double as banners, and I want to print some cool stuff on the
> >banners, rather than cut out the black an white ones from the book that
> shows
> >how to build it. I've taken a few minor liberties with the design, and it
> >seems to work quite well! I've tested all the muscles, and all 8 contract
> >perfectly (there's only 6 signals though, since there are two muscle pairs
> >that always contract together). The bot was begun YESTERDAY!!! I not only
> have
> >the entire mechanical frame, minus the banners and legs, complete, but I
> did
> >it and even had to leave town for some items! Not bad for two days!
> >
> >The robot has a BASIC program for PC that uses the paralel port. It'd be
> just
> >as equaly possible to use an I2C 8-bit interface chip or some sort of shift
> >register and a latch. If you examine the BASIC code you can see exactly how
> it
> >works! It's very simple!
> >
> >If you have more than 8 lines to control it get's real fun. I personaly
> like
> >to use Nervous and or Neural networks. The calcs are great though for
> >controlloing them. Another possibility is a Neural bot, but with sensory
> lines
> >that are manualy activated by the calc's output??? Maybe!
> >
> >Francis Huang wrote:
> >>
> >> At 10:22 AM 6/12/98 +0100, you wrote:
> >>
> >> You make robots?  How hard is it?
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Sure. Next time I update my page, I'll post them there. I'll be making
> an
> >> >update shortly since I'm almost done with a new robot. BORIS, the
> motorLESS
> >> >muscle wire robot from mondotronics, has 6 legs and makes NO noise other
> than
> >> >it's little feet tapping on the floor! It uses muscle wires instead of
> motors!
> >> >It's so cool!!!
> >> >
> >> >I've already begun the frame for Challenger Fe-LiNe (there will be two
> >> >challenger series bots, Fe-LiNe and K9). Fe-LiNe's body will be about a
> foot
> >> >long, more witha tail (if I add one). I may use muscle wires for the
> tail
> >> >though. They seem to work vry nicely!
> >> >
> >> >It'd be interesting to use that 8 bit I2C interface chip to control a
> small
> >> >robot! Great project! I know there is a DBA robot built into a TI-92,
> but a
> >> >small, simple one could be interesting (of course I can make it walk
> forward
> >> >with only 4 Nv units)
> >--
> >
> >
> >Richard Piotter
> >richfile@prairie.lakes.com
> >
> >The Richfiles TI Hardware and BASIC web page:
> >http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5081/Richfiles.html
> >

-- 
Bryan Rittmeyer
mailto:bryanr@flash.net
http://www.bridges.edu/horizon/
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