GuardBot improvements
Background
Earlier I had built a GuardBot, a camera on top of it and two power supply holders for it.
But. My code had never moved a servo in it so far. So, I took a servo controller board from an earlier unfinished robot project and wrote a first test code to it to control the servos on the robot.
While testing it, I accidentally broke a front differential. So, I not only fixed it but I also improved its structure. While installing it to the robot, I noticed few more things that needed to be fixed too. The front axle was bent a little and a rear axle was not in a straight position. After a short investigation, I ended up to redesign some extra support parts for the front axle and a more stronger linkage parts for the rear axle.
Technical details
The GuardBot improvement parts consists of the following:
- Holder parts for the servo controller board
- Improved differential cage
- Extra support parts for the front axle
- Stronger linkage parts for the rear axle
All the improved parts can be downloaded from here.
Usage
The GuardBot has been staring our vestibule ever since it got its camera. It just takes a picture and sends it to the server every now and then. At least, I feel a bit safer when I see that there's no one in our house while we are gone. Eventhough, I know that I can't do much about it if one day I see a burglar in the house. Yet.
Action
There's a short video below telling basically the same story written above. Enjoy (I'm not sorry about the music on the video since this time it's not composed by me) :)
All I need to do next is to create an AI. It can not be that hard :D