BuckyBot

A box from DigiKey!  Parts for the Servo Boards.  Soldering iron heating up ... yum ... I love to solder parts ...  happy nerd/geek/hacker/maker smiles.  Playing Pretzel Logic in the background while soldering makes for a happy maker moment.

Check out the servo board parts list/BOM at:  

http://www.ranarchy.org/SERVO%20BOARD.html

... and ready for fabrication/assembly.  Check out this jpeg.  Will post on www.ranarchy.org soon

There is a printed circuit board (actually there are two) that determine instantaneous position data of the BuckBoty.  Each PCB has a GPS unit with antenna, a digital magneto-restrictive compass chip, 3 orthogonal accelerometers, and a pic24F08 microcontroller communicating with them over the I2C bus, and to the boss hawg controller over a shared serial bus (RS-422).  For further details (and download the schematic and Gerbers) you can go to:       http://www.ranarchy.org/DESIGN.html

... keeping America safe for capitalists and capitalism.  About the hardest thing to do is to spend all the time it takes to present a design in a coherent manner properly.  So, I design UAV (Drone) widgets during the day, then go home to design, fab, and DOCUMENT buckybot.  Me ... just me...  Despite my appeal to the maker masses for help, I get no response.  I am struggling to make the web pages logical and coherent.  I have a Work Breakdown Sturcture (WBS) for the BuckyBot, but it's massive.  As the web sight grows, so will its coherence and logical structure.  Keep in mind that there's still a month to still ENTER ...    Try to be patient ...

http://www.ranarchy.org/SERVO%20BOARD.html

Schematic is a .pdf that can be copied and saved.

http://www.ranarchy.org/HEXABOT.html

Design is now on ranarch.org.

Blurry (from phone, and I suffer from essential tremor) but illustrates that Vlad's hexapod fits the GS-90 servo well:

OSH Park envelope arrived yesterday... So did my GS-90 servos.  Working on Bot foot and leg parts now....picture tommorrow, I think.