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[James Bruton] is on a quest to explore all the weird and wonderful methods of robot locomotion, and in his latest project created an omnidirectional walker that can move in …read more Continue reading Omnidirectional Walker With Wheeled Feet
We’ve been following [James Bruton]’s open dog project for a little while now, and with his considerable pace of work – pandemic or no pandemic – development has been incredibly …read more Continue reading OpenDog Version 3 Is Ready To Go Walkies
Self-balancing robots have become a common hobby project, and they usually require two wheels to work. [James Bruton] has managed to single wheel balancing robot by adding gyroscopic stabilization. [James] …read more Continue reading Monowheel Balancing Robot Can’t Turn (Yet)
Tracked robots usually require at least two wheels inside to work properly. However, [James Bruton] discovered a curious tractor design from the 1940s, the Fordson Rotaped, which only uses a …read more Continue reading Rover Uses Different Kind Of Tracks
[James Bruton] is experimenting is a series of interesting mechanical mechanisms, the latest being a CVT transmission system which uses a tilting sphere to get a variable speed output from …read more Continue reading Ball CVT Drives Robot From A Constant Speed Motor
Flip dots displays are timeless classics, but driving the large ones can quickly turn into a major challenge. The electromagnets require a lot of current to operate, and the driver …read more Continue reading Mechanically Multiplexed Flip-Dot
One of the challenges of many walking robot designs is the fact that they draw current just to stay upright. This was exactly the case for one [James Bruton]’s quadruped …read more Continue reading Bungee And Cam Assisted Actuator For OpenDog
The ability to move in any direction and turn on the spot is a helpful feature on robots that operate indoors around other objects. [James Bruton] demonstrated one possible solution …read more Continue reading Robot Moves In Any Direction On Ball Wheels
Self-balancing robots are a common hacker project, but we don’t often see them using spinning gyroscopes to achieve that balance. Robot master [James Bruton] decided to build a robotic platform …read more Continue reading Actively Balancing A Robot With A Gyroscope
When automating almost any moderately complex mechanical task, the actuators and drive electronics can get expensive quickly. Rather than using an actuator for every motion, mechanical multiplexing might be an …read more Continue reading Prioritising Mechanical Multiplexer