Saturday, October 15, 2011

Back in to the swing of things...

Well, after an interim, here's what's been happening...

Firstly, I've inspired a friend to be into robotics - which means that I'm having to improve my gain actually going things.... which is very, very good. I've actually gotten around to getting my mosfet based h-bridge to work. I'm going with a complementary pair system, rather than using just n-channel ones... I'll go into my reasons why later,  though. And I should actually check the values for the resistors I'm using with it. I have found, however, that you can't leave the gates floating - they tend to over heat... but it's easy enough a problem to solve.

Secondly,  Stanford University have started their online, unofficial Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning courses - very timely when you're attempting to build an autonomous robot.

And finally, my legs and feet are on their way care of A&A! Of course, I'm now looking at ways to... improve things. The way that I figure things, it doesn't look like it will be difficult to make a few moulds, and build them out of fibreglass... or carbon fibre... or carbon/kevlar...

This is becoming a really good way to learn plenty of stuff.