{"id":369,"date":"2009-10-31T19:06:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T03:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=369"},"modified":"2009-10-31T19:06:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T03:06:15","slug":"future-robo-magellan-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Future Robo-Magellan Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/robomagellan-chassis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/robomagellan-chassis-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"robomagellan chassis\" title=\"robomagellan chassis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-370\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve finally gotten some real traction on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robothon.org\/robothon\/robo-magellan.php\">Robo-Magellan<\/a> robot. The picture here shows the chassis I purchased from eBay for a platform to get started.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I bought two of them, as I really want to have independent steering in the front and back. My plan was to chop the chassis in half, simply &#8220;glueing&#8221; one front end to the other front end. Now that I&#8217;ve had a look at how its put together I&#8217;ve got a slightly different plan, to make better use of the way the motor is connected. I can combine the back transmission and motor mount with the front axle pretty easily, without loosing much flexibility. It looks like I&#8217;ll be able to get independent four-wheel steering out of it too. I need to machine a new base plate, but I was pretty much expecting to do that anyways.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing to do is select a &#8220;brain&#8221;. I&#8217;ve got plenty of sensors and motor controllers, but nothing that will give me a &#8220;real&#8221; platform for software development. The AVR processors are simply too underpowered for this sort of job, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/tincantools.com\/product.php?productid=16133&#038;cat=0&#038;page=1&#038;featured\">Tin Can Tools Hammer<\/a> board I&#8217;ve been playing with recently doesn&#8217;t have enough I\/O. I really want something that can run Linux, preferably also run Python for the main program. I could write it all in C++ but the development time can be reduced by using Python.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else building a Robo-Magellan robot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally gotten some real traction on my Robo-Magellan robot. The picture here shows the chassis I purchased from eBay for a platform to get started. Actually I bought two of them, as I really want to have independent steering in the front and back. My plan was to chop the chassis in half, simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}