Excursions Along the Edges of My Imagination
Ardi is being built as a sort of “second-generation” version of the original “Gadget” concept, although at this point we are also busy rebuilding Gadget also. The general idea is for a beastie which “lives” and operates in a human space and in a “human” time-scale, meaning on a typical 24-hour wake / sleep schedule.
My wife gave me a six-wheel Wild Thumper Robot / RC chassis a couple of years ago for my birthday. I wanted it to use as a platform for a robot project. Sharp-eyed readers may recognize it as the underlying platform for my “ARDI” robot. After I got the batteries and cpu board and whatnot figured out, I decided that I wanted to add shaft encoders to the two center wheel motors and that’s where my troubles began…
Here’s a quick link to the Build / Photo Log on Google so you can see what we’re up to. When I get a chance I’ll get it all transferred over to here:
https://goo.gl/photos/xgBE1NQrABDhcQ5KA
(This is a placeholder post for the category– More to come…)
