RoboBrrd Electronics

We list out ALL of the electronics in RoboBrrd! For a small robot bird, it has many motors and sensors. Plus, a nest of wires! :P


More videos of RoboBrrd in this playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...

To learn more about RoboBrrd:
http://robotgrrl.com

Photos of RoboBrrd:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robotgrr...

Music:
Syntax Error - Sputnik Booster
http://freemusicarchive.org

Thanks a bunch to Adafruit Industries for the parts!
http://adafruit.com

• Category

  Science & Technology

[Frank Buss]

You could try a buck regulator, e.g. LM2575. At 1 A output it reaches up to 90% efficiency, so maybe your RoboBrrd could flap twice as long before need to recharge and you could use a smaller heat sink.

[Erin RobotGrrl]

All I have are two 11.1V Li-Ion batteries because my parents bought them for MANOI 3 years ago. I used to have 2 LiPos, but one of them went puffy so now I just have one, and it's not enough voltage. I used a LM317 because that was what the electronics store had. Also, now that there is a large servo for the beak instead of a micro servo, the heat isn't that bad.