The Robot pages

Site map :

Various stuff
Adder
Rotation sensor
Towers
Security device
The Robot pages
Lego Ants
Robotarm v1.0
Robotarm v3.0
Computer-robot
Circuitry
Program
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2
Physics of Lego
Measurement
Motors
Measuring strength
Combining motors
Stepper motors
Ratchets
Lego ratchet
Electronic ratchet
Multiplexors
1-to-2 multiplexor
2-to-7 multiplexor
Pneumatics
Pressure
Regulator
Measure
Control
RCX Mindstorms
Survey of RCX programming
PRO-BOT
History
Examples
The famous machines
Turing machine
New Page 1
References and links

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august 10th, 2002.

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access to my Lego pages since creation.

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The following pages presents some of my designs.

First, I developed around 1995 software and hardware to control a robot from a PC. The software presented is for Windows 3.1 (so pretty much outdated...). The circuitry, source code and two tutorials are available.

Second are ants. If you want a good challenge, make an ant. Ants are 6-legged robots. They are more complex than spider because 8 legs are more stables and can hold heavier motors.

There is also the arms. At first, I wanted to develop a robot that could interact with the human, performing orders such as "move this and that". With this objective, an arm was more appropriate than a wheeled robot.

Before making a robot, the questions you must answers are:

Will it move? If yes, with legs or wheels? If there is a hand, will it moves according to Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z in 3-D space, or with radial coordinates (rotations)? What kind of sensors will it possess (pressure sensors, light detectors, sound detectors...)?

Examples can be found for:

Moving robots

Arms

Walkers (2 legs)

Shadow Robot Project: Biped Walker

Cartesian

Plotter

Wheeled

MOBILE ROBOTS GROUP

Radial

Lynxmotion Series

Walker (more than 2 legs)

Lewis Valentine's LEGOŽ Page

Human-like

Lego Technic models by Svein Erling Lode

Anyway, you'll find even more examples in the excellent page: Robot Information Central