#robotics concept

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Part 2 Update: Everything is coming up sunny

I thought I would ask how it is going from the cool ppl who are following me and give an update from the most recent project(Link to the poll vote: https://www.tumblr.com/creativespot123/767068429620543488/poll-vote-result-stepper-motor?source=share ).

So first: Hello, how are you? How have you been?

So an update:

As discussed before in the linked post concerning the robot idea, I had a bit of a realization that I am not going to spend like three hours trying to make cardboard sturdy enough to support moving the machine. I have built the initial arms so as to make him move, but when attempting to find a way to make the "Belt" (A rubber band) move the little man's axle.

I figured why not just find some cheap gears online since amazon you can pretty much buy anything other than human body parts, finding these:

This plastic piece will be used for its teeth, which will make it more easily move the machine.

To end this update off I leave you an MS paint image of me doing things on the computer machine:

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Poll vote Result: Stepper Motor

Thank you all for voting on the poll, as of today I find the Stepper Motor to be the one which was the winner.

Okay so I have a few ideas, not going to poll them because I want to do the zany one first, then I'll move on to the more grounded and harder one.

Henry is a two-armed robot which will move along the ground using a set of arms connected to a servo, turning on and off with the press of a button, using a sort of crank shaft mechanism which moves both arms simultaneously.

The second is a locking mechanism which will work on a clock, which will be elaborated on in a different post.

For now, let me introduce: Henry the Crawler, this is a fairly basic idea which I plan to expand on with real blueprints later.

The idea is that I will be using an Arduino nano, connected to a breadboard which gives commands to a single stepper motor to make two arms throw itself forward.

The Single stepper motor will interact with the two arms via an axle, similar to a wind-up machine, only instead of a key there is a microcontroller and a button to turn it off and on.

Now I understand that there are issues with Henry, but I think he will be hilarious.

Now I thought the best way to do this would be to use the basic wind up mechanics for the actual moving parts in this robot. Doing this out of cardboard will be difficult but it seems like it is simple enough to build, just time consuming. As for the rod part I was able to ask a roommate for bamboo sticks to add onto it, so shout out to roommate for that.

As for the winder, spring and gear part of the components, I want to use one of the 28BYJ-48 5v dc stepper motors so as to make sure it is only one part which might be able to turn the beast on and off. I'll post more with the bread board and jumper wires later on.

Though not specified in the picture, I think arms with tendons in the actual moving parts might be kind of useless, and it is beyond my knowledge to be able to make them more utilized. I will likely keep the idea around for further projects.