From scratch(ish) this time!

Wait, you’re making a controller again?

Previously I posted about Making a GameHat Into a ROS Controller.

So why am I at it again? First off, the GameHat doesn’t allow for analogue control, the analogue stick is recognised on or off… This means the spiders would be either full speed or not…

Cause who doesn’t want to do that?

Ever since Steve — the first robot in the robotic spider army — I’m known to make robotic spiders. …

In part 1 I outlined why/what/how I was going to build a 3d printer. I’ve been working on it slowly for many months but I have finally got to phase 2, codenamed “just make the damn thing go ffs”.

The extruder and hot end

I had planned on using a dual bowden head on the…

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Norman Vincent Peale.

I’ve got a plan to build an army of robotic spiders. By army I mean more robots than I can directly control at once …and not all of them will be spiders, I…

Yorick is the 2nd instalment of my robotic spider army (post explaining that to come!). I’ve been working on Yorick for 4 and a bit years. The kick-off story is here and the follow up to v8.0 is here.

It’s all about the size

Yorick V 8.0 is about 10kg and has a 1.2m leg…

As a crazy robot guy, it’s important to me to be exposed to lot’s of things I don’t know. For this reason I buy cool tech things like the xpider and the geio ar battle robots and I often go to events and talk to people about tech.

Recently a…

I’ve been 3d printing for a few years now, it started in January 2015 with me at a public library, playing with their 3d printer.

I had 6 weeks off between jobs… Anyone who knows me will understand that 6 weeks of free time usually leads to me going completely…