New direction for WALTER

Saturday, September 19. 2009

After thinking about what I am trying to do with WALTER, and robotics in general, I've decided to remove the pan/tilt from the bottom deck and remove the arm from the top deck. I think I've been trying to do way too much with WALTER, and am going to orient him only to three specific areas now. Doing this will allow me to use both of the nice ball casters I recently purchased for him and solve the last mechanical problem I've been working on. I've been real unhappy with the placement of the new casters on the bottom deck due to the location of the pan/tilt.

From now on, I will orient WALTER completely for line following, maze solving, sensor experimentation, swarm research (with ASTRID), and behavior based robotics. With the AXON controller, I have the processing power and potential to do some really cool and interesting stuff in these areas. I think this will be the perfect fit for WALTER.

I'm getting a Tracker sensor that I'll mount at the front of the bottom deck for line following.

This will be the last complete rebuild I do with WALTER.

8-Dale

73 from N7PKT

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