Work begins

I started by brainstorming a general idea of what I wanted my robot to do and how it would look. I came to the conclusion that the robot:

• Would have a humanoid robot feel (However would have a 360 movement on wheels rather than legs to not over complicate things)
• Would be able to pick objects up
• Would be lit up with a series of LED light
• Would be controlled by remote control

While these were the primary aims I have ideas of later adding audio features such as speech recognition and audio playback.

Today I also started the base of the robot. The front wheel has about 100 degrees of movement and will be controlled from within the chamber behind it. The back wheels are connected by a gear system which will be connected to a motor later. They are connected by a rubber band which will be replaced by a metal chain at a later stage.

20/12/12