Board Soldered

So it seems I lost any skill I had with a soldering iron and small electronic components. The underside of my breadboard is a mess and I am quite afraid of a meltdown. Good news, I bought double of everything so even if I fry something, I can make the board up again pretty quickly.

Hopefully the Axon will arrive within the next few days so I can start construction on my legs while waiting for the connectors to come in for my other robot. I am eager to test out my range detectors and servos and see what kind of resolution and strength I get out of them.

The messed up breadboard will be up within a few days so you can make fun of the horrid work I did.

Meaning of this (blog's)life

The intended purpose of this blog is to keep up to date information of any projects/fun stuff that I am currently working on. My plan is to start with a version of the $50 robot from www.societyofrobots.com which I will then heavily modify to test different algorithms and concepts.

My future plans include a legged creation, hexapod or more, to resemble a crab that will be able to traverse uneven terrain while making intelligent decisions of where to go and which dog to chase. I would also like to make a cheap quadruped that can be modified with attachments(homemade) and easily programmed in C to be used in cubicle warfare. Think 1984 Tom Selleck movie "Runaway" featuring Gene Simmons.

I'll do my best to keep this up to date with pictures, findings, and maybe even some pseudo code of whats happening.