[sudo-discuss] giant robot

[Cere Misc]

I was telling Matt that I thought we should have a Rube Goldberg Hackathon
with all of our stuff at sudo.  That way we would have to pull out a lot of
the stuff off the shelves and categorize them in terms of
electrical/mechanical specifications (to figure which thing to work with
which other thing), which would then be a part of how we shelve stuff as
well.

Sort of related to your Robot idea…

Like I keep wondering what we could do with those two powerful juicer
motors lying on the floor near the seeing machines?

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i got a really fancy motor controller and a bunch of really fancy motors
> with encoders built-in, and it all works together.. and I think we should
> consider making another robot.  Here is the controller:
>
> product sheet:
> http://spaz.org/~jake/bxi/BXi-Tool-Controller-Debuted.pdf
>
> huge operation manual:
> http://spaz.org/~jake/bxi/BX300HIFMan.pdf
>
> basically the brain can control six motors, which i have, with very
> precise motion control and tracking, for example for the joints of a giant
> robot.
>
> The motors I have are a couple of sizes, but I think we should go big and
> use the 500W (2/3 horsepower) motors, so the thing can be expected to cart
> its own batteries around and be autonomous.
>
> never mind, this is a dumb idea.  but i do have the motors and controller,
> and i may be able to get more.  I guess we could build a 4x8 foot laser
> cutter or something mundane like that.
>
> -jake
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