Re: TI-H: cool
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Re: TI-H: cool
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
>
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