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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #240 on: May 02, 2010, 01:23:35 pm »

Glyph, you have Various Wires (x10) and a bit under that, Various Wires x11.

Hmmmm, sounds good.
How about this? Two metal prongs, like you said, stick out in front of the robot.
A metal square hangs by some rope on a stick or something in front of those prongs.
When the robot bumps something, it pushes the square into the prongs, connecting them and completing the circuit, which trips the detection.

Consider Schematic: Touch Sensor
Small Sheet Metal x1
Solder x1
Duck Tape x1
Various Wires x1
Circuitry x1
Small Plastic Tubing x 1

we do this
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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #241 on: May 02, 2010, 03:33:23 pm »

Glyph, you have Various Wires (x10) and a bit under that, Various Wires x11.

Hmmmm, sounds good.
How about this? Two metal prongs, like you said, stick out in front of the robot.
A metal square hangs by some rope on a stick or something in front of those prongs.
When the robot bumps something, it pushes the square into the prongs, connecting them and completing the circuit, which trips the detection.

Consider Schematic: Touch Sensor
Small Sheet Metal x1
Solder x1
Duck Tape x1
Various Wires x1
Circuitry x1
Small Plastic Tubing x 1


we do this

Sounds good to me.
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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #242 on: May 02, 2010, 03:38:41 pm »

Glyph, you have Various Wires (x10) and a bit under that, Various Wires x11.

Hmmmm, sounds good.
How about this? Two metal prongs, like you said, stick out in front of the robot.
A metal square hangs by some rope on a stick or something in front of those prongs.
When the robot bumps something, it pushes the square into the prongs, connecting them and completing the circuit, which trips the detection.

Consider Schematic: Touch Sensor
Small Sheet Metal x1
Solder x1
Duck Tape x1
Various Wires x1
Circuitry x1
Small Plastic Tubing x 1


we do this

Sounds good to me.

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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #243 on: May 02, 2010, 04:11:08 pm »

Yes I agree with cheds idea.
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« Reply #244 on: May 02, 2010, 04:18:45 pm »

What exactly are we going to do with it, though? I think we should sell it, and buy better parts (like a camera), and make a better one, maybe with arms, that we can operate from far away so we can steal without getting caught. The robot doesn't seem very useful at the moment.
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« Reply #245 on: May 02, 2010, 04:38:32 pm »

Well the main point is to be a platform so then we can hold more on each trip, selling it would be aginst its main design idea. Anyway why are you so eager to sell it? If possible could we agust the platform so we can remove it?
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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #246 on: May 02, 2010, 04:55:51 pm »


The bot is a bit unstable with just those 4 small wheels and that platform on top of it, and the platform is currently about 2 feet above the ground, meaning you'll have to bend down to get stuff. Perhaps there's something you could to do strengthen the motors, since right now its max speed would only be a couple miles per hour even without stuff on it. Also, you currently have to control it manually via the remote (at least you hooked the two motors together, so you only need to use one). Maybe you should spend some time trying to make it autonomous? Of course, then you'd have to figure out what sort of programming to give it - you don't want it rolling people over (without your permission, anyways) or knocking stuff over, and it doesn't have any sort of sensors yet.

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« Reply #247 on: May 02, 2010, 06:08:38 pm »

If we keep it, we get a little more capacity - not much, considering it's not a very large robot.
If we sell it and make a new one, we get more capacity and more xp.
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« Reply #248 on: May 02, 2010, 07:36:30 pm »

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Yes yes YES! Perfect. You may not be able to give it eyes, but you can give it feelers. Using some of the scrap you have left over from the frame, and some wires, and some solder, and a bit of circuitry... hell, you could even add a couple without much work...

New Schematic Gained!
Primitive Touch Sensor
Metal Scraps
Various Wires [x2]
Solder[x1]
Plastic Tubing[x1]
Circuitry[x1]

And you might not have much of a brain thing, but you could hardcode in some basic collision response, like stopping, easily enough... and, wait, oh, yes. You could always hook it up to your laptop, and let your laptop do the thinking... then programming a mapping and Nav program could well be trivial...
New Modification Gained!
Laptop Hookup
Various Wires [x2]
Solder[x1]
Circuitry[x1]


Spoiler: Schematics and Mods (click to show/hide)

So, you're design is really starting to show some promise now. Does it need anything else? Or is this enough to get rolling?

Well, when you think you're ready inventing, just CONFIRM some final design to start constructing the bot.

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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #249 on: May 02, 2010, 07:45:50 pm »

If we keep it, we get a little more capacity - not much, considering it's not a very large robot.
If we sell it and make a new one, we get more capacity and more xp.

I don't see why you think we can sell it to make enough money to buy more parts than was used?

Anyway I think we should keep it and improve, it's not very fast so we can up that, more wheels for stability and more powerful engines. Ideally we can keep with low profile electrical engines and have a nice silent transport bot to move stuff around.
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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #250 on: May 02, 2010, 08:06:40 pm »

Well, of course we can sell it for more... basically anything's worth more than its component parts, right? Except for totaled cars or whatnot, but those are a special case. Plus, once we program it (for free), it should be very valuable.

You suggest improving it. I agree wholeheartedly - but shouldn't we start from scratch, with newer, better parts, the specific parts that we want, instead of whatever we had on hand from the junkyard?

CONFIRM Medium RC Roller + Primitive Touch Sensor + Platform Modification
NAME Robot: S13
PROGRAM S13: OBJECT AVOIDANCE
INVESTIGATE: Selling S13
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« Reply #251 on: May 02, 2010, 08:10:20 pm »

Well, of course we can sell it for more... basically anything's worth more than its component parts, right? Except for totaled cars or whatnot, but those are a special case. Plus, once we program it (for free), it should be very valuable.

You suggest improving it. I agree wholeheartedly - but shouldn't we start from scratch, with newer, better parts, the specific parts that we want, instead of whatever we had on hand from the junkyard?

CONFIRM Medium RC Roller + Primitive Touch Sensor + Platform Modification
NAME Robot: S13
PROGRAM S13: OBJECT AVOIDANCE
INVESTIGATE: Selling S13


Also make Laptop Hookup Since easy tool to make to help with this project and future projects.
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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #252 on: May 02, 2010, 08:17:14 pm »

Well, of course we can sell it for more... basically anything's worth more than its component parts, right? Except for totaled cars or whatnot, but those are a special case. Plus, once we program it (for free), it should be very valuable.

You suggest improving it. I agree wholeheartedly - but shouldn't we start from scratch, with newer, better parts, the specific parts that we want, instead of whatever we had on hand from the junkyard?

CONFIRM Medium RC Roller + Primitive Touch Sensor + Platform Modification
NAME Robot: S13
PROGRAM S13: OBJECT AVOIDANCE
INVESTIGATE: Selling S13

I agree with you for the most part, but I think we should wait a while before selling the bot. First we use it to carry more stuff back from the junkyard(or somewhere else) and then we sell it. Or better yet, we sell the patent to a supermarket to replace shopping carts, though it obviously needs a few upgrades be fore we do that.
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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #253 on: May 02, 2010, 08:19:46 pm »

Robot needs MOAR torque if you want it to carry anything remotely heavy.
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Re: Woman of SCIENCE!
« Reply #254 on: May 02, 2010, 08:20:30 pm »

Could you explain your reasoning? I'd rather not do that, because we have a chance of getting caught (though slim) and we might as well build the new bot first and gather parts with that, correct?
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