What follows is my journey to come up with this board. In the end I came up with something that works, but I’m sure there’s a more elegant solution, and perhaps an obvious one to those more skilled in this low voltage realm. Today’s question is, how do you convert a negative voltage into a positive one? When working on my first real robot, a BB-8 droid, I stumbled when designing a board to convert varying polarities from an RC receiver board into positive voltages only for an Arduino. I have a good background working with high voltage, which for me means over 10,000 volts, but I have many gaps when it comes to the lower voltage realm in which RC control boards and H-bridges live.
But it may be wrong for one very good reason.Ĭontinue reading “Our Reactions To The Treatment Of Robots” → Posted in Featured, Interest, Robots Hacks, Slider Tagged BB-8, boston dynamics, humanoid, humanoid robot, object recognition, uncanny valley Is it wrong for Boston Dynamics, or anyone else, to treat robots in this way? Being an electronic and mechanical wizard, you might have an emotional reaction and then catch yourself with the reminder that these machines aren’t conscious and don’t feel emotional pain. The second snapshot perhaps evokes the strongest reactions in anyone who owns a dog, though its similarity to any four-legged animal will usually do. That’s easy to do since not only is it human-shaped but the video shows it carrying a box using human-like movements.
One is that the we anthropomorphize the human-shaped one, meaning we think of it as human. Why do scenes like this create the empathic reactions they do? Two possible reasons come to mind. Shown here are two snapshots of Boston Dynamics robots taken from their videos about Spot and Atlas. Posted in 3d Printer hacks, Robots Hacks Tagged animatronics, arduino, astromech, BB-8, diy, droid, first project, instructables, quadruped, robotics, star wars, transformers, Zoids Definitely one of the coolest quadrupeds we’ve seen. This is accomplished by attaching another servo motor to the head. If that weren’t enough, the spherical head can rotate, widening the range of the ultrasonic distance sensor and obstacle avoidance mechanism.
This reminds us of another design we’ve seen before. Honestly, if it weren’t for the ultrasonic distance sensor protruding from the spherical body, you might think that the entire robot was just a little Wiffle ball. even included an ultrasonic distance sensor for the obstacle avoidance mechanism. The legs are retractable and are actuated by tiny servo motors inside the body. robot has a quadruped based, housed within a 3D printed spherical body. We don’t know about you, but for some of us, we were satisfied with blinking two LEDs instead of just one. Eventually, you try your hand at making your own custom projects and publishing your own tutorials.įew are lucky to have a first-project as elaborate as quadruped robot. Sound familiar? After a while, you noticed your skills started increasing, and your comfort level with different projects improved as well. Started learning electronics the same way most of us did: buy a few kits, read a few tutorials, and try your hardest to put a few things together.