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Schematics and Code for a Bubble Blowing Robot
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Pi vs PCB #2

Closed rsingla92 closed 11 years ago

rsingla92 commented 11 years ago

Given the natural simplicity of the bubble bot (in my head at least), perhaps the PI is overkill. Perhaps a simple PCB is all that's needed.

To be discussed and evaluated.

jamesmack commented 11 years ago

The parts I've ripped out of that RC chopper would be suited to simply popping the IR LED out of the boy's casing somewhere and using the control sticks on the IR control to blow bubbles.

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Given the natural simplicity of the bubble bot (in my head at least), perhaps the PI is overkill. Perhaps a simple PCB is all that's needed.

To be discussed and evaluated.

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rsingla92 commented 11 years ago

...good god, that's so simple. In terms of just practicality, I'd be okay with that.

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jamesmack commented 11 years ago

I'll detail the parts I removed tomorrow, but it really shouldn't be too difficult to just slot it all in somewhere and make it work. I've preserved the driveshafts of both props (it was a contra-rotating main prop) with one motor driving each direction so we have some flexibility. The second motor could be used to power the fan to blow the bubbles, and the first can be used to drive the part that actually moves the bubble wheel.

We may have to see if we can add in some resistance to dial down the speeds though.

On 2013-04-29, at 9:53 PM, Ricky Singla wrote:

...good god, that's so simple. In terms of just practicality, I'd be okay with that.

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rsingla92 commented 11 years ago

Closing. WIll use IR.