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Mon, 04/01/2010 - 10:54 — admin

I'm a member of the Aurorans group ( meetup.com page, ning site). Danny Staple and myself were tasked with putting together a robot that would be simple enough to assemble by interested newbies to robotics (although I hardly qualify as an expert myself). Danny & I agreed on some basic hardware and set to work. Danny's version, the Eee bot, is documented here. This page documents my version of the robot, Chairbot.

Chairbot is so named because the main framework is formed by an old steel chair. I wanted a robot that had a display and sensors a reasonable distance off the ground in order to better interact with people and happened to have some scrap laminated chipboard and an old chair lying around - Chairbot is the result. Please see the links below for updates.

Updates

Getting started and physical assembly
Wed, 06/01/2010 - 01:42

The goal of this project was to construct a low-cost expandable robot platform that Aurorans members can build on without a lot of hardware. Danny and I reckoned that most technology enthusiasts would have a laptop and using a laptop gives the advantage of a familiar environment for for use and development of the software for the robot. Besides the laptop and some standard rechargeable batteries the components required for version 1 are:

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