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Subject: [New post] Two motor walking robot with a TI Launchpad
From: "Hack a Day" <donotreply@wordpress.com>
Date: Wed, 13 June, 2012 10:01 am

Post : Two motor walking robot with a TI Launchpad
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/06/13/two-motor-walking-robot-with-a-ti-launchpad/
Posted : June 13, 2012 at 9:01 am
Author : Brian Benchoff
Tags : beam robotics, robot, ti launchpad
Categories : robots hacks

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Last month, [Vinod] bought a pair of hobby servos on a whim. These servos sat on the shelf for a while until [Vinod] asked his friend what he should use them for. [Achu] suggested using the servos for a walking robot, so after checking out a few YouTube videos of some servo-powered walkers, [Vinod] built his own (http://blog.vinu.co.in/2012/06/two-servo-walking-robot-using-ti.html) .

The robot is built around a TI Launchpad housing an MSP430 microcontroller. An extremely simple circuit (just some servos and a cap) power the robot along by alternating the direction the servos turn.

[Vinod]'s two-servo locomotion mechanism is very reminiscent of BEAM robots (http://www.beam-wiki.org/wiki/Main_Page) , extremely simple walking (or rolling) robots made out of just a few logic circuits. This TI Launchpad is in some ways even simpler; where [Mark Tilden]'s Walkman robot (http://www.beam-wiki.org/wiki/Tilden%27s_Vbug_1.5_/_Walkman_1.0) used several 74-series octal buffers, [Vinod]'s project is just a Lanuchpad and a pair of servos.

All the code is available on [Vinod]'s blog. Check out the demo video after the break.

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