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2021-12-18 9:30 pm
I got very excited about DB1 and now it seems to have stalled. What is the state of play with the project? I need to find out if my time scale will fit in. No point in salivating if not going to the feast!
As my user name suggests robotics has always been one of my interests. It depends if you want to build a robot kit without any real understanding or build one based on your own vision of what a robot should be. I was interested in DB1 for its electronics and maybe later the software used but as for the design a mobile construction site has never appealed to me. Maybe as an outside robot on a farm but a domestic robot I think needs to be friendly to look at with a nice shell over all its innards. Also it would be neat if it could actually do something apart from just getting from A to B using LIDAR or whatever method is used for navigating the environment.
So if your interest goes beyond a robot kit and you want to actually understand how it works why just read up about how to make a robot from scratch and make a start? Bill's little robot tutorials would be a good start. It doesn't matter about your robot frame. You can always move the guts of the robot from one base to another and those so called "toy robots" are real robots as far as I am concerned.
Building a robot yourself rather than a robot kit would require a basic knowledge of electronics and programming.
2021-12-18 10:13 pm
Hi robotBuilder, have just finished building Bill's robot car on a Track chassis, it works apart from a few minor problems.
The control range is very small as I'm too clumsy to remove and resolder the intern resistor and plant it to extern, up til now iv'e ruined three esp32-cam modules.
The video is lying on it's side +90°, all attempts to correct this have failed and last but not least, attempts to slow the motor speed down have failed this could be due to the 12v motors that i'm using.
I might leave my first project as it is and move on to a “bigger” project.
A project with more torque and a different module with a ready to go external antenna.
Something like Bill's 6WD thumper, but not so expensive, that means finding parts to build a chassis from scratch.
Think the robobug has bitten me.
PS. The below text is not mine.
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2021-12-18 10:37 pm
The above was in response to your post.
Greetings one and all,
mikeaidanh, or just Mike, signing in. I am ex RN and a host of other ex's in my 80 years of existence. I am still in love with 4000 series cmos and I know that makes me a sad old sack but I can't help it
I got very excited about DB1 and now it seems to have stalled. What is the state of play with the project? I need to find out if my time scale will fit in. No point in salivating if not going to the feast!
Best wishes for Christmas and 2022,
Mike.
What does RN stand for?
Been around for 80 years, not bad going. My father in-law is 92 years and still has all his marbles.
I still have my old CMOS Cookbook, by Don Lancaster 1977
2021-12-18 10:51 pm
@robotbuilder RN? Well, in fact, the FAA of the RN which is the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy but that was all so long ago.
I also have the Don Lancaster and the Horowitz and Hill. I read them in bed.
MIKE.