I'm interested in Robotics (I made a simple ping-pong ball collector a while back https://sendcat.com/dl/D9DI15MAOjhKMFJYLJLADj64ywyU2qGWaKMSl...). Are there places I should go or things I should read to find out more about the latest developments in robotics in general, or the use of brushless motors with encoders/dynamic walking gaits specifically?
Nice build :) Have you checked out EasyEDA + jlcpcb? It can improve the electronics aspects of robot projects.
I searched a bit now to see if any new projects have shown up. Came across this one: https://hackaday.io/project/167845-mjbots-quad Could maybe be interesting, but I haven't looked into it.
Getting a drone or gimbal working properly from scratch is a lot of work. And these dynamic walking systems are more complex endeavors because there is less info out there. So I would recommend to find some project with people who seems talented and has a nice atmosphere and then get building :)
> Nice build :) Have you checked out EasyEDA + jlcpcb? It can improve the electronics aspects of robot projects.
Thanks! Yeah, the electronics is a bit gross. This build was probably 6 years ago perhaps? I got it to the point that it worked and then it was kinda "done" and all that was left was polish, but it was really a toy so there wasn't much point and I left it.
Planning on building something for slug and snail control (NW UK, they can be a problem), and cat/badger/squirrel scaring in my garden (they dig up things). Will likely make use of PCBs with this so will check out the links.
He does a some testing of some Turnigy motors (a bit like this: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-aerodrive-sk3-6374-149kv..., there's a whole range) which looked cool, and he was using an odrive controller https://odriverobotics.com/ which also looked pretty handy, so there's some stuff to check out there, but he also did some tests with some gyems motors and they looked great:
Given the speed of slugs and snails I am going to probably go for a less dynamic movement style. Less force, smaller motors, longer battery life. Though I like the idea of trying to program dynamic movement. The physical build for my more static movement style shouldn't be too hard to do.
