Robo-Fish

This is my final Project for Physical Computing Taught by Fernando Orellana at Union College

It is a little robot that is powered by the "dunce cap" it wears. It randomly moves around and gets nervous when you bring your hand close to it. Built using Basic Stamp2 Polou Motor controller and scavenged parts it is my first attempt at miniature robotics. The flux capacitors at the back of the robot maintain its power so it doesn't reset upon losing contact with the cap. The circuitry on the bottom is hot glued over so that only the ground ( - ) traces would touch the ground (floor). The Robot is disassemblyable into the two tiers and communication and power between them is transferred only through a three pin header and the aluminum posts that join the two tiers. Originally I used a Zener power supply which involved using a resistor core (many resistors soldered together) to burn off the extra energy, but upon the Zener burning, I switched to an adjustable power supply in a TO-220 package (the number of which escapes me at the moment).

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http://imakeshift.blogspot.com/

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