Despite spending many, many years playing with bits of wire and black insects (my wife's words, not mine) I have never ventured into the world of robotics.
My view was basically; "so you spend several days building a robot, play with it for half an hour, then chuck it in the junk box, where the bits are slowly robbed for other projects".
But having been given a buggy chassis kit, I was compelled to build it. Then I was compelled to buy a few more black insects (a Picaxe & an H drive), cut a few more lengths of wire, and bring it to life with some simple code.
And when you see your little creation stumbling around the kitchen floor, bumping into white-goods, and getting stuck in that dark corner behind the vegetable rack, you think; "I can do better than that". ...and your hooked!
(The full story: http://captainbodgit.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/robobuggy-and-me.html)
My view was basically; "so you spend several days building a robot, play with it for half an hour, then chuck it in the junk box, where the bits are slowly robbed for other projects".
But having been given a buggy chassis kit, I was compelled to build it. Then I was compelled to buy a few more black insects (a Picaxe & an H drive), cut a few more lengths of wire, and bring it to life with some simple code.
And when you see your little creation stumbling around the kitchen floor, bumping into white-goods, and getting stuck in that dark corner behind the vegetable rack, you think; "I can do better than that". ...and your hooked!
(The full story: http://captainbodgit.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/robobuggy-and-me.html)
