Hey guys,
Well, no idea whether this will or won't happen, but I'd quite like it too if I can find the time / get round to it. At the moment though I'm still in the stages of collecting ideas and working out whether it's feasible from both a practical and financial standpoint.
The idea is to have a wifi controlled robot that can trawl about with a full computer on board. It'll probably be an atom based build powered off a Yuasa cyclic 12V battery (or similar) and running some version of unix / linux (using a wireless card so I can communicate with it over a network.) The higher level programming / PC side I'm not worried about at all, but my lower level electronics isn't brilliant - and in terms of controlling motors this is a fair stumbling block.
So, the questions:
- Any suggestions on motors / gearboxes (preferably motors with gearboxes included!) that will drive this thing? It doesn't need to be the fastest thing on the block at all - I'd prefer it to be a bit slower and more torquey than fast and not be able to go over any bumps. It'd be nice if it moved at a reasonable speed though! I'm imagining the whole thing will probably weigh in at well over 10KG with the battery (with most of it being the battery) so it'll need to shift that lot.
- Any advice / suggetsions on motor controller boards that'll work under linux and power the above motors?
- Any suggestions on wheels? If so, any recommendations on attaching them to the motor / gearbox axle?
- Anything else you think I'm missing and haven't yet thought about?
I'm in the UK if that makes a difference with any links you'd recommend. Thanks
Well, no idea whether this will or won't happen, but I'd quite like it too if I can find the time / get round to it. At the moment though I'm still in the stages of collecting ideas and working out whether it's feasible from both a practical and financial standpoint.
The idea is to have a wifi controlled robot that can trawl about with a full computer on board. It'll probably be an atom based build powered off a Yuasa cyclic 12V battery (or similar) and running some version of unix / linux (using a wireless card so I can communicate with it over a network.) The higher level programming / PC side I'm not worried about at all, but my lower level electronics isn't brilliant - and in terms of controlling motors this is a fair stumbling block.
So, the questions:
- Any suggestions on motors / gearboxes (preferably motors with gearboxes included!) that will drive this thing? It doesn't need to be the fastest thing on the block at all - I'd prefer it to be a bit slower and more torquey than fast and not be able to go over any bumps. It'd be nice if it moved at a reasonable speed though! I'm imagining the whole thing will probably weigh in at well over 10KG with the battery (with most of it being the battery) so it'll need to shift that lot.
- Any advice / suggetsions on motor controller boards that'll work under linux and power the above motors?
- Any suggestions on wheels? If so, any recommendations on attaching them to the motor / gearbox axle?
- Anything else you think I'm missing and haven't yet thought about?
I'm in the UK if that makes a difference with any links you'd recommend. Thanks