SRS POPCAN CHALLENGE ROBOT
I’m now working on my eighth version of my Pop-Can Challenge Robot. As I have re-imagined my robots I continue to grow and learn better ways to accomplish things. I’ve also purposely made changes just to keep myself trying different things.
My first robot was made my comfortable choice of PIC Microcontroller(s) v0.1 was one, v0.2 was three. To laser cut design pieces, eventually adding 3D printing pieces from thing-a-verse to now using CAD to design my robot before building-on-the-fly. I’m adjusting some life priorities because I know I spread my hobbies a bit thin… and I’m not getting the time I need to finish this robot… there is a certain point where something takes more hours than you might have to offer, and I just can’t get over the ledge on software without a deeper commitment. I also hope to build a Robo-Magellan bot as well.
I will try to curate my design thoughts, considerations, and goals to break down how I built this robot and why it’s what it is… I’ve failed dozens of times, made massive painful changes, learned a ton from friends and those failures… and hope that I can provide the next person with a little inspiration; be it to improve on what I did, prove I could have done something better, or whatever the motivation. If you want any part of the design down to the code of my work let me know… I’m terrible about documenting, but I am hopeful to change that going forward. My goals going forward are to better document what I am working on so that you can easily copy and speed up the time for developing your own project. I also encourage you to share your project(s), including failures to help the wider community.
My robot builder’s database page with a few more photos: The Builders Database (buildersdb.com)
