MyzharBot v4 from virtual to real… work in progress for MakerFaire Rome 2015

MyzharBot v4 Main Structure

The first drawings of the pieces of the new MyzharBot v4 has been sent to the laser cut service… about 20 days and we can see the new track structure with the new rubber tracks.

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What is missing in MyzharBot to be a perfect outdoor robot?

MyzharBot-v4 under creation

MyzharBot wants to be autonomous, but mostly it wants to be an autonomous OUTDOOR robot… so what is missing in MyzharBot to be a perfect outdoor Robot?

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New photo gallery: NVidia Jetson TK1 mounted and powered

Protection for NVidia Jetson TK1

A new photo gallery is available: the NVidia Jetson TK1 is now mounted on the upper horizontal base and powered by the 12V generated by the programmable DC-DC converter. Now it’s time to port the software on the new board and to start to create Computer Vision algorithms!!!

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New rendering: MyzharBot with NVidia Jetson TK1 and protection

MyzharBot & NVidia Jetson TK1

A new rendering is available: MyzharBot is now at version 3.1.1. The new brain, NVidia Jetson TK1, fits perfectly on the electronics base and a transparent protection has been designed. Now its time to cut the protection with the laser machine and to mount the new brain onboard.

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NVidia Jetson TK1 is “happy” inside its sandwich

A "sandwich" for NVidia Jetson TK1

Today I realized a simple Laser Cut protection for the NVidia Jetson TK1 board. Now I’m designing a plane to fix it onboad of MyzharBot 😀  

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The new chassis has arrived… MyzharBot v3.1 is coming

MyzharBot v3.1 chassis disassembled

Yesterday evening I received the pack from Vectorealism with the new lasercut pieces of the chassis for MyzharBot v3.1. As test I chose wood as material, but it is perfect and I am ready to realize the plastic chassis. Following a few raw photos of the materials A video with the…

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Added Mechanics section

Base, Hub and Sprockets

I added the Mechanics section. It contains a full and detailed description of the mechanics and of the chassis of MyzharBot.

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New basis and selfmade spacers for the tracks of MyzharBot v3.1

MyzharBot v3.1 without tracks

After a lot of searching on the web I realized that using 2.5″ M3 tapped spacers to keep the basis of the tracks separated at the right distance is not as easy as it seemed. Spacers long 2.5″ are not easy to be found and what I found is not…

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