MANOI’s Numerous Tune-ups

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

MANOI has been moving around lately. I’ve been bringing it from one place to another, which does have some wear and tear on the wires.

The first time I tried to bring it somewhere to show everyone, it was super cold and a lot of the wires snapped! (It didn’t work) =P

MANOI regularly has trouble with one of its servos, which is also completely annoying.

Currently, MANOI’s servos are either connected by the servo cable itself, or there are jumpers. These jumpers can be tedious at times as they can fall out, and not work. At this point, what MANOI really needs are real servo extension cables.

Thanks to a donation I received, I am ordering 7 of them! Hopefully they will be here by Friday.

I’m also trying to adjust the center of gravity again. I have to find a better way of attaching the Arduino and SSC-32 together, and then attaching that to its back.

Posted in: MANOI, Projects, Robot.

SOFREEZINGCOLD

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

ITS SO FREEZING COLD! I think I’m gonna transform into an ice-cube!! ZGG!

Speaking of cold… You know when you first start to skate, you pretend you’re walking? You hardly go anywhere, but you do go somewhere because of the friction… My robot can now do that! I was playing around with MANOI, gave him some roller-skates (actually: lego wheels), and programmed it in. After a few trials and errors, it works! MANOI now can look like a goofy Canadian newbie skater. SWEET!

I’m trying to find a small hockey stick that I can tape to its hands, but I have a feeling Ill have to make one myself. Carving it will be okay, I’m just worried about how I would make it thin- like half an inch. I’ll probably use one of the sanding power tools to do that (since I don’t want to saw my hand off (or fingers (but then again, they may just fall off because I’m SOFREEZINGCOLD (wow this is a lot of nested brackets (LOL))))).

I hope to play hockey with my ‘bot on Saturday… this will be interesting!

I updated my blarg to WordPress 2.7 B2, and stylized a new theme! I’m not sure what I should name that lonely RSS elephant over on the right though. Syndie, the syndication elephant? LOL!

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Bad Timing…

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Wowza! I caught a really doozie cold. It sucks!

It has taken all of my energy away from making the Styrobots (more on that later) which I’ll be using to fundraise money to go to Stanford.

Speaking of taking energy away… our power will be cut today! I hope that my fever won’t drive me insane. I’ll probably read Foundation by Isaac Asimov, or something

Thanks for hanging in there…

Posted in: Projects, Robot.