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intro: How to build the one motor walker!
Welcome!
Here is Instructables on how to build a walker with only one motor! This design is base
on the principal of B.E.A.M robotics! Building simple and elegant robot inspired by insect.
This robot was build back in 2000 and want to show you how to build it.
Video
Gareth Branwyn once contacted me to make a article in his book about my one motor walker.
The chapter is online. This is worth reading in parallel while making the robot.
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I don't think there is a big gear is in there. Be careful.
If you never build a robot and want to tackle the one motor walker, I suggest you try the beetle robot.
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Good luck!
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Image Notes
1. When I first saw this robot, I got inspired to build one exactly like that. I never
got the time to do it .
I recommend you to take the time to read this entire instructable before starting. In every page I have added a lot of pictures, so don't forget to look.
Image Notes
1. Servo horn with screw.
2. The freeform BICORE circuit.
3. The big plastic gear.
4. Servo motor.
5. Rigide plastic tube. Be sure that a coat hanger can fit in the inside the tube. Not
tight, it need to be spin freely.
6. Terminals. Image Notes
1. Pictures from www.allelectronics.com
Image Notes
1. Image from www.smarthome.com
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step 2: How to build the one motor walker!
This is main mechanical part you will need to make the robot.
You can find this sort of gear in VCR. Search garage sale or ask familly and friends.
The DVD is already obsolete thank to the BluRay, imagine how obsolete is the VCR! :P
Image Notes
1. Check the second picture
You can use traditional servo horn for this project. It will work.
Image Notes
1. Look at both hole. They are centered
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step 4: How to build the one motor walker!
Please visit this instructables to know how to modify a servo motor
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-modify-a-servo-motor-for-continuous-rotatio/
You can use cooper wire to do the same thing. Look at step 8 to know which wire to take.
Image Notes
1. Centered...
2. With this.
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1. Don't be scared to put some glue.
You can use the plastic that cover a electric wire. Maybe some 14/2 or 10/2 wire will do.
Read step 8 to understand what does 14/2 mean.
Image Notes
1. Simply glue it in place. This is your pivot.
To secure the gear, look at the step 9. I use terminal block to hold it place.
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Image Notes Image Notes
1. They need to touch! 1. They touch barelly, try to bent it more.
2. Use terminal block to hold on the gear.
3. Use terminal block to hold on the gear.
22 gauge is breadboard wire and gauge 0 is the size of your finger! 200 Amp
2 is the number of wire not counting the ground. You have a black and white wire.
The black wire is the "hot" that carry the 120V
14/3 is the same with one more wire. The wire is red. You normally use this wire when you have
a 3 way. Two switchs that control one light for example.
Image Notes
1. Use terminal block to hold on the gear.
2. Use terminal block to hold on the gear.
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step 9: the battery holder
I use AAA batter holder but AA will do the same. Glue them to the servo motor.
We will hook are battery holder in serie to get higher voltage but with the same current.
To hold your gear in place, I have use some terminal block, I have remove the plastic and cut the terminal in two using a saw. I simply put them on the shaft to hold the
gear.
Image Notes
1. Use terminal block to hold on the gear.
2. Use terminal block to hold on the gear.
The schematic is really ugly and was made ~7 years ago with paint!
The 74AC240 circuit come from www.beam-online.com
R1 = 1Meg Ohm
the capacitor are 0.22uF
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step 11: How to build the one motor walker!
Glue the circuit on top of the servo.
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Image Notes
1. My servo motor can spin 360. I had to put this nail to stop my motor from
making 360 degree. If I let the motor oscillate, it will one day do 360 degree.
Image Notes
1. I ended building this one :P
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Thanks
ps- It could be possible with some thinking :P
Be sure the back legs lift of the ground or else the robot will not go far!
Thanks
Jerome
Good luck
ps- you can put 2 3,2Meg in parallel to have a 1Meg resistor for testing.
Jerome
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uncreative username says: Nov 28, 2008. 9:46 AM REPLY
is that a Mondo spider i see? yes,its an eight legged beast, that can reach a speed of 30 miles an hour.
When I made this robot I thought I could easilly make this robot reverse but it ended up walking foward even by swapping the motor polarity. The only
thing I could try is to make the robot turn . I will try that on the next version.
Jerome
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viacin says: Sep 19, 2008. 3:03 PM REPLY
what if...and I'm grasping into thin air here and thinking as I type... you made the motor only go half the gear before reversing polarity? Repeat this a
few times would cause the bot to turn in that direction. If you could wire a spdt to reverse the polarity when triggered...it would still go all the way
across the gear unless there was something to control the timing.
Like lets assume it takes 1 second for the motor to turn the gear from one side to the other. If the spdt is triggered then the motor will go + for .5ms,
then - for .5ms then + for .5ms, then - for .5ms and so on untill the spdt is no longer triggered. This would allow the bot to turn when it encounters a
wall or whatever. Maybe. What do you think? And either way, this is starting to sound like a Micro controller job.
good luck
Matt
Good luck
Matt
good luck to you too to make a new awsome robot i can make
Matt
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turtleshane says: Aug 22, 2008. 6:55 AM REPLY
yah its cool u can do that thanks adios
I REALLY don't mean to be rude - you've put a lot of work in here.... but it reminds of that scene in the movie "The Fly" where the 'creature' is begging to be
put out of his misery!
No offense meant.
[m]
You can do that but you are going to have a long tether to control de robot.
Thanks
Jerome
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turtleshane says: Jul 18, 2008. 6:00 PM REPLY
yeah i'll agree with you capn tac if it is not self operating it would be an rc vehicle and then it would still be a type of robot thing i would say, but even
so as you said a robot is "'A machine designed to replace human beings in performing a variety of tasks, either on command or by being
programmed in advance" and this robot doesnt do anything helpful it is just fun
My personal favorite are the small rc helicopter servo's that one can purchase on auctioning sites, small and cheap (four for about £15 last time I got
some) although not as powerful as standard size hobby servo's they would work well with a smaller power supply.
Drew
4/5 rating!
I've just realised that I've had your website on my bookmark list since before I discovered Instructables!
(Oh, and did you know that when you google for one motor walker, the first three hits are you, and fourth hit was inspired by you? Kudos, Robomaniac)
P.S. It will still be posted, but obviously not in the contest because it is over.
Next time I will post a sort of blank instructable and add it to the contest. Your instructable will be in the contest so you can edit it like you want.
There are other cool instructable contest, try to get yours in the book contest!
Good luck!
Jerome
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