We, with this I mean the group I did the Formica Robot Project, Jose Jaherrera (a Mexican exchange student), Jelle Van Camp, Christoph Wauters and myself, for Cybernetics.
We used all the information provided by Jeff Gough (http://warrantyvoidifremoved.com/) and Rob Spanton (http://xgoat.com/wp/).
The university ordered all the parts and we made 2 pcb boards ourselves, nevertheless for quality reasons, all pcb boards were ordered by the a professional company as they have better equipment than we had.
After 3 weeks of waiting, we had all the parts to start soldering our formica robots. The original plan was that each member prepare 2 pcb boards, as we had to put all transistors, resistors and mosfets manually on the pcb board, as all these components were plentiful. We had 10 motors and 5 batteries, so basically, we could make maximum 5 fully functional robots. So we set out on our soldering adventure. We ended up with 6 fully soldered pcb boards.
We, then, split up our group effort into a more individual effort as we needed to use our skills more efficiently.

• Jose Jaherrera : responsible for robot complement
• Jelle Van Camp : responsible for the social learning algorithm
• Christoph Wauters : reponsible for physical design adjustment
• myself : reponsible for programming of the firmware and robots

We then set out on our individual tasks and came together after we completed our individual taks to finalize this in a report, as we needed to hand in a report and make a footage of the robots.
Our findings and results are available at http://www.toshaan.be/publications/cybernetics/.
One photo worth mentioning :

• The family : the four legged robot, the two legged robot, the blinking led robot and the stillborn robot
  

Tags: MSP430, Robotics

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