Down the track...

I've got photos to post, just haven't had the time...

Well, I've completed the final exam for Stanford's open AI course, I have to finish off some stuff for the Machine Learning one... Not really happy with the ML - massive troubles getting the videos to work.

Am getting the legs together, although I've found I needed to go back over the seams with JB-Weld. I'm still going to put carbon fibre inside in order to add enough strength. I also got the A&A R5 head kit - I need somewhere to put sensors. I interact, therefore I am...

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.