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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: chimera15 on Wed, 03 November 2010, 23:12:27
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My ultimate goal/want is to create androids. But I don't have any money. Anyone else? Anyone here build/make pro or hobby robots?
I've had a long term project of playing around with muscle wire sitting on my desk for close to 5-10 years now. Anyone know if there's been any improvements as far as that goes?
I wanted to weave the wire like real muscle, but could never afford enough of it. Also the programming/electronics was pretty daunting.
Playing around with the teensy controller with DMW gave me an inkling that I might be able to do something with it.
I'm kind of bogged down on my keyboard project though, cause I can't cut square holes in a sheet of metal, which is kind of frustrating me. I want to get that keyboard done before I start on this again in reality.
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Yep, one of the captains of my school's robotics team. Two years ago (when I was just a nooby gopher) we won Trinity Firefighting Competition, beating out the Chinese, the Israelis, and every other team from the US.
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Yep, one of the captains of my school's robotics team. Two years ago (when I was just a nooby gopher) we won Trinity Firefighting Competition, beating out the Chinese, the Israelis, and every other team from the US.
Amazing. Have you played around with muscle wire at all? One of the limitations it seems like to me is the use of motors/gearing. It seems like there needs to be a muscle wire that will work like real animal muscle to really get a realistic/efficient android movement fully implemented. It seems like that's right around the corner. I'm really surprised I haven't seen a robot arm at least that uses that technology.
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I've heard good things about Lego Mindstorms (http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/default.aspx). Wonder if Ripmeister has played with them at all?
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Mindstorms is like the best entry kit <$1000
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I've heard good things about Lego Mindstorms (http://mindstorms.lego.com/eng/default.aspx). Wonder if Ripmeister has played with them at all?
I built some experiments with it. I hacked the pic and power supply to drive more complex and better r/c servo motors though, and not to just run off batteries. The problem with my set is that it's one of the early ones though and only works really with windows 95. It gets the job done though and doesn't require a lot of coding as they have their little snap together control program which is awesome, although you can program it with more advanced scripting as well. It's really great cause it allows for all levels of knowledge.
I always wondered what the possible power output was from it though. I was scared to change the voltage/amps cause I wasn't sure if it would destroy the pic or not.
It's an older one so it uses an ir sensor to program the pic, and the ir sensor only runs off a com port which is why I stopped using it, along with it needing windows 95. I pretty much need to set up a separate computer just for it.
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Personally, I've had experience with Vex, and I find it's a bit more "grown up" than Mindstorms. I've seen full working suspensions and gearboxes built out of Vex pieces.
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(http://www.darkmirage.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/03_gundam.jpg)
Mandatory gundam break
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Personally I'm going more for this:
(http://desktopnaruto.co.cc/data/media/16/Chobits-11.jpg)
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Watching the show "Sex Robot" on discovery health. Pretty disgusted. lol
I have to wonder if they made that show just to discourage people from creating androids and just to make fun of them, let alone the people that would be into them. The robots they showed were so laughable. The people they showed with "robot fetish's" were there just to laugh at. They also don't get it, it's not about domination. The segment with a guy trying to turn his real girlfriend into a robot for sex play was just ridiculous.
If you have a real girl, wth are you thinking trying to diminish and limit her capacity, and define a robot as something that is there to serve you, and has limited functions? Just messed up and wrong. Android makers are trying to make something to the standard of reality, but better, not a standard of some bad sci-fi robot.
If you're going to create something so limited, ugly, unusable, and disgusting why even bother, let alone try to promote it. You just do more harm than good.
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remember: through study and thought you've reached a level of discernment that most people haven't.
it's the same as with keyboards.
the good news is, many people will appreciate a high quality unit when you hand them one :)
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Did you get the $150 Texas Instruments Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller robotics kit that was on sale for $25 last month? That was a killer deal ofg a lifetime.
(ofg a lifetime, what a typo)
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ofg, a typo
brown cherries today?