This is a video of my Futaba RBT-1 Robot performing a demo routine.
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RBT-1 – “Demo Sequence”December 7th, 2011
Quadru-Pet 2 – “Body Physics”November 30th, 2011
In the video you can see that I am controlling the body position of the robot using an accelerometer. The accelerometer will soon be attached to the robot and ultimately help with balance calculations.
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Quadru-Pet 2 – “Body Shell”November 5th, 2011
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This is the new body shell for my quadruped robot. I’ve also added some wiring sleeves to tidy up the cabling. One of the legs is dragging a little as the screws had come slightly loose. But now the robot is pretty much built I can finally start to concentrate on getting the walking gait smoothed up. I also need to think about what type of sensors to add for 360 degree object awareness.
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Quadru-Pet 2 – “First-Steps”August 7th, 2011
This video shows Q-P2 running a Creep Gait routine. I think I need some kind of rubber tip on the end of the legs as you can see him slipping on the wooden floor. I might even add some pressure sensors to the tips so I can work out feet position over rough terrain …
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Quadru-Pet 2 – “Press-Ups”August 6th, 2011
Just a quick video demonstrating my robot doing some basic ‘press-ups’ using an IK routine. Finally got my servos sorted – using 8xHS-645MG and 4xHS-485HB. Next I have to start working on a smooth creep gait sequence …
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Quadru-Pet 2 – It’s meaner …August 4th, 2011
It’s been well over a year since my QP-1 Quadruped robot project took his first steps towards stagnation into a box … So I decided to design and build an all new leaner, meaner and ultimately cooler looking quad … meet QP-2
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Itchy InteractiveMarch 7th, 2011
Itchy Interactive is a company I set up as an outlet/support website for all my iPhone projects. So if you are interested in my mobile/iPhone developments then perhaps you might want to check it out: http://www.itchyinteractive.com There is also a blog that I keep up to date while developing new products.
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Poker Yourself!October 27th, 2010
On a train, in the car or waiting for your loved one to come home from work? Then why not try and Poker Yourself!
Poker Yourself is an Open Feint enabled Texas Hold ‘Em style poker solitaire game for the iPhone. Featuring online leaderboards, tons of achievements and customization, Poker Yourself will keep you amused for hours.
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BoatShop24.comSeptember 23rd, 2010
I’ve been working at Boatshop24 since January 2010 as a PHP web developer. When I started, the flagship website was based upon an outdated sprawling hotch-potch of a code-base – that is to say hundreds of PHP includes called from various places, display markup (mostly table cells at that) intertwined with business logic (?!) etc etc.
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Brighton & Hove Free PressSeptember 8th, 2010
Following on from Practical Boating, and as an aside from my day-to-day PHP development, I’ve been working on another WordPress project: Brighton & Hove Free Press. The idea was to have a site that contains news items written by the people for the people primarily living and working in Brighton and Hove area.
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