kitten plays with a robot bug - B.E.A.M. Trooper pt.3 | by Harold R. Ilano (Vintage Video)

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Harold R. Ilano wrote:

Trooper is a miniaturized Scout Walker 2 robot, as seen on Solarbotics site. It's a 4-motor walker design, constructed from pieces of PCB's and large paper clips. The behavior of this bot is actually the same as the original but I did some additional features to it. I just added 3 little and simple circuits.

This walker is phototropic. If it sees a bright light, it will go towards it and just walks from that spot, then stops in a few seconds then starts walking again. When Trooper pauses or stops, the 2 LED's turns ON, showing a multi-colored bright light on its back, just like a firefly or some sort. After a few seconds, it will start to go around the spot of light again and repeats the process, stop and go...stop and go...

If there are no light on Trooper (dark area), it will disable or turn OFF its phototropic feature and continues to walk, bumping on things, turn's left and right and reverses, as long as its battery pack has enough power to run him. Trooper has also a built-in "low- voltage monitor". If its battery pack goes low in charge, a visible red LED blinks, located at the rear side. A small piezo beeper can also be attached instead of blinking LED, but my piezo beeper is a little bit large that can't fit anywhere on it. So, I've used a blinker instead, as a visible warning.

I've built Trooper's circuit board just last year, I guess it was October 2006. I didn't finish it because of lack of time and I was always out. I began working with it last February this year, 2007. And now, it's finally done! It just feels great....yeah!

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