Stairbot is getting closer and closer to completion. The above render is what the final version should look like. We’ve decided to laser cut a lot of acrylic to build most of the leg and body structure.
We’ve ordered all of our electronics, and we should be receiving them soon. Then we can start actually programming and getting gaits set up. Our goal is to have the construction mostly completed by the end of the month, and start working on some basic motion control.
Earlier this evening the Stairbot Team (a CMU Robotics Club project I head) began construction of our robot. Thus far we have only done initial part sizing (machining stock down to the size we will need for the part). Below are pictures of the machined parts and the schematic for them. The schematic was created by Mike Ornstein who has done all of the CAD work for Stairbot thus far. Our grant submission can be found on his site: here.
I’ll follow up with more details about Stairbot later this week.
I’ve spent a lot of time working on my dynamics project in the past 2 days. The gist of the assignment is to build a device capable of hitting a ball into 2 separate holes. The team and I managed to get almost all of the aluminum parts fabricated and the hitting mechanism just about completed. Despite our best efforts to be careful when making the parts they still didn’t fit together as perfectly as we had hoped. Still, it fits together well enough that it will work as designed.
We still have a decent amount of work ahead of us. We need to build all of the controls for the mechanism as well as attach the 3 main pieces of it together. We do not need to have our complete mechanism for our design review coming up this week, however, the more we can get done the better.
