Contest Entry Beetlejuice

[sthmck]

I might not be thinking about it the same way you are. What I meant was fiberglass over the shell, then pop the vf part out. Then you fiberglass on the inside of the first fiberglass part (the new mold), that should give the correct size. I don't really know how it is all supposed to go together though so this may not really work at all.

[WGhost9]

Update time! I have begun the coding phase of the project this weekend. Thanks to the sage assistance of you forum goers, I have succesfully gotten the Axon microcontroller to control my SSC32 board and have gotten it talking to the Bot Board II as well. I treid getting the PS2 wireless controller talking directly to the Axon but in the process something went wrong and now the wireless module refuses to work anymore .

So rather than risk a frying a new PS2 controller on the Axon, I have set up the Bot Board II to receive the PS2 data and then report it back to the Axon. That code is complete and tested as far as I can without a working controller.

As per the fiberglassing, the cnced mold was sized perfectly so that a shell formed around it would snap fit to the size nessecary. That menas the vacuum formed shells should fit snug as a bug. Ideally the same would go for any fiberglass built over the mold as well.

[WGhost9]

So now the ABS body plates are complete (pictured below). They still have that toxic ABS smell on them. On the programming side, I have completed the C code for servo control and have begun the Inverse Kinematics. Unfortunately I now have the flu and it is slowing me down quite a bit this week, but I promise not to let it stop me from working on robot. Expect more updates as further parts arrive this week .

[revoltage]

Simply a masterpiece...where you get facility for machining?

[ooops]

Brilliant work!
Hope you get to feeling better soon.
Keep the updates coming!!!

[WGhost9]

The majority of the machining for this project is done at the Techshop (http://techshop.ws/). For a price of 75$ (for students, 125$ for everyone else), I have unlimited access for a month to vacuum formers, cnc machines, laser cutters, milling devices etc. They even do 3D printing at 15$ per cubic inch (which is hideosly cheap). If you are interested they have franchises up and down the west coast and will soon be expanding to Boston.

[revoltage]

Cool. You did you drawings on solidworks?

[WGhost9]

Yep I got a student version of solid works from work.

[ScuD]

A student version from work? sounds a little odd

[WGhost9]

Well the work was academic research