[Blackpool] Hello

[Arthur Garlick]

Hi,

I am Arthur from St Annes.


I have been messing with Pic microcontrollers off and on for many years and just got back into it spurred on by some interest from my sons (and hoping to grab their interest more).



The current thing I am playing with is a 3 axis magnetometer/compass chip and I2C with a view to having model boats that know what direction they are pointing in and can derive what direction the turrets are pointed in and turn/track targets when the boat changes direction using some small stepper motors.  The control will hopefully be by messaging via 2.4Ghz so I send messages equivalent to ‘all ahead one third’ and ‘steer course 240 degrees’  rather than moving an analog stick on a transmitter and there be an immediate response.  The boats I am looking at are 350th scale dreadnought period, so realistically you shouldn’t have immediate and precise control and not much room in the hulls at that scale.  


The last thing I built with my son was a useless machine with two servos driven by a Pic 12F675. 


I visited Manchester Mini Maker Faire recently and it’s inspired me to look at a biped robot.  Although the model boat is the main project I am working towards, I think dabbling around with a biped robot would be a great long term side project.  When I went to Maker Faire I met and had a great chat with David Buckley and loved his Thor robot: http://davidbuckley.net/DB/Thor/ThorLog.htm It seemed to me that if I went down to Madlab Manchester one Saturday I might well get the pieces for Thor on their laser cutter, David wanted some Android development doing, which if I understood him properly I could probably deliver, and he is very knowledgeable with walking robots.  Or if anyone in this group would do a robot I’d jump in with them, I am a Pic guy but I’d try Arduino.



Anyway, that’s me introducing myself.



regards


Arthur











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