PicBicoreBiped

introduction (incoherent babble)

robots, especially articulated limb robots, are my bread and butter. it's why i wake up in the morning, it's why i wanted to be an engineer, it's why i collect electronic junk hoping to find that one great motor or some interesting LED/IC/thing-a-ma-jig... that being said this project has been brewing for a long time but has never made it out of my mind. ok, it still hasn't but at least it's closer to real. the real introduction (slightly coherent)

the goal is to combine my roots with my future. i want to use bicores to control the leg motors at the lowest level and control the bicores with a pic. it's not an original idea but it's new to me. i've never taken on this complex of a project before but i'm almost ready for it. the bot

i want to build a bipedal robot that is capable of staying on its feet, and walking (at least on flat surfaces). i'd like it to be a bit smart and not just follow a preprogrammed path. the feet will probably be dumb (lightly spring loaded), but the legs will have 2 degrees of freedom (hip and knee) or 3 DOF (hip, hip, and knee). of course i'd rather the later. i have these great motors that i got from solarbotics that have been begging for a home for years. they were supposed to go into a 4 motor bicore walker but it never happened. i did build the bicore circuits though so that part of this project is already done! that's all

i haven't actually started this project yet so there won't be much more here but notes for a while. i doubt i'll even start working on this for 3-6mo. UPDATE

well i sold my soul to marketers to get a free robosapien. this fulfills the requirements of this project - BEAM controlled biped with a micro for 'higher level' functions. more on this when i recieve it...

-- ChristopherPepe - 17 Mar 2006