Noodle *will* walk this year! No more excuses. Whatever it takes, my goal is to get Noodle independently mobile by the end of 2019.
Since I have no idea what I'm doing, I'm inviting any and all help along the way.
Noodle's parents will be posting our progress on Noodle's GitHub along with video highlights from our "walking sessions" so you too can follow along or take a shot at this challenge yourself.
MISSION STATEMENT ! [this is the beginning]
mission objectives for this year:
independant mobility
stronger body pieces
local rechargable power supply
SESSION 4 : January 17, 2019
mark worked on code which gets noodle to turn in place, clockwise
worked on honing control and maximum speed for the turn sequence
at this point, decided not to add the extra degree of motion to the new leg design
decided to still relocate "lift" motor down into the leg
needs improvement:
implement accelerometer
SESSION 3 : January 15, 2019
put oscilloscope on Noodle to see if he is indeed resetting
saw voltage drop, confirmed he is resetting
added capacitors to brain to see if it solved voltage drop
eventually realized the AVR programmer was causing the reset
Mark wrote a version of shapeDaddy's gait the brute force way
needs improvement:
fine tune gait for speed
try to have each step cover more distance
SESSION 2 : January 12, 2019
debugged test code from previous session
noodle took controlled steps across the table and was able to tag his pizza without falling
WOOOOOO!!!!! =D
needs improvement:
speed and timing of movements throughout gait
why does he look like he's resetting?
SESSION 1 : January 9, 2019
reviewed old walk code
assessed the walk gait of other quadruped robots on youtube to form new ideas
recalibrate noodle's physical body
shapeDaddy wrote a new program using for loops, but it wouldn't compile
