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SuperRobot #5 : The End!

dubbie
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10 May 2019

It is now the end of my attempt to make my SuperRobot. It is the end in two ways; firstly I have run out of time so what I have now is all that there is going to be, and secondly because the SuperRobot chassis just would not work properly and is now broken. The motors driving the chassis wanted to work but for some reason, most of the time they just wouldn't. Sometimes they would, but usually they didn't. Regretfully in my quest to drive nearer and nearer to the limits of the electronics in order to get more POWER! something went wrong and now nothing works. The Arduino controlling the chassis has become defective and no longer works - I'm not surprised as I increased the power supply to 12V in the hope it might work for just long enough for the final video. But no, it didn't. I've tried all my DC motor driver interfaces and I have now come to the conclusion that the motors I was using were just not powerful enough and just stalled. Now it is sadly broken. And for some reason, perhaps in sympathy, the train Arduino controller has also decided not to work anymore either. It worked last night but today, nothing. It is probably something very simple but time has just run away.

 

So, in spite of all these breakages, I proudly present : SuperRobot !!!

 

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  • fmilburn
    fmilburn over 6 years ago +3
    Fun - I would be told pretty quickly to “Turn that thing off!” though.
  • three-phase
    three-phase over 6 years ago +2
    That's a great project Dubbie, I am really impressed with the amount you have going on around it! Kind regards.
  • dubbie
    dubbie over 6 years ago in reply to three-phase +1
    Donald, Thanks for that. I was aiming for the cacophony approach with lots of things going on at the same time. I had hoped to make many of them controlled by microprocessor but there were just too many…
  • dubbie
    dubbie over 6 years ago in reply to fmilburn

    Frank,

     

    You wouldn't need to wait to be told, in reality it is much louder than the video shows and it is a real cacophony and it just drives you almost instantly mad and you want to turn it off. It was that effect I was aiming for, but perhaps with a few more robots. I also have some sound recorder and play back PCBs which I was hoping to include but I just ran out of time.

     

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    dubbie over 6 years ago in reply to three-phase

    Donald,

     

    Thanks for that. I was aiming for the cacophony approach with lots of things going on at the same time. I had hoped to make many of them controlled by microprocessor but there were just too many of them in the end, plus I had problems with the initial large flat chassis. Still, I think it shows what I was aiming for even if I didn't quite a achieve it. Next time maybe.

     

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    fmilburn over 6 years ago

    Fun - I would be told pretty quickly to “Turn that thing off!” though. image

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    three-phase over 6 years ago

    That's a great project Dubbie, I am really impressed with the amount you have going on around it!

     

    Kind regards.

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