Book Image

Arduino By Example

By : Adith Jagadish Boloor, Adith Jagdish Boloor
Book Image

Arduino By Example

By: Adith Jagadish Boloor, Adith Jagdish Boloor

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Arduino by Example
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building the chassis


We have already finished the prior art part of this section. That subsection has inspired us to design our robot in a similar fashion of a dog. We will use this knowledge to build the body of the robot. This section may bring about nostalgic memories of art and craft projects that you did when you were little.

Sticks and servos

Start by clearing out some space on your workspace. Then, pick out two working servos and put on their arms.

Now, cut out a piece of double-sided tape such that it covers the base of the servo as shown:

Now, stick this servo onto the other servo at a 90 degree angle like this:

Use two rubber bands and stretch them around the servos, as shown in the following image, to strengthen their bond:

This is going to be our hip joint that was mentioned earlier.

Now, pick the straightest-looking ice cream stick, mark a line that is 7 cm from one end, and cut it:

Now, laying the two-sided arm of the servo at the edge of the cut stick, poke two thumb pins (or any...