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2008-10-06 Calgary Wall-e Robot Part 1
Everyone loved Wall-E, and it's no surprise that I also did...
I was walking through the Super Store buying groceries last night, when I took my usual detour through the toys section and spotted Wall-E. This is a toy made by Disney that was truely the most annoying and dissapointing item I've purchased since the iRobot Dinasour peice of crap.
This "toy" merely makes wierd smashing noises and waves it's arms and head around. The box advertises "interactivity"... Other then the smashing noises, it does aboslutely nothing. It doesn't even move!!!! Only it's arms move, and they are animated together by a gear assembly and a single motor. Boo Hoo! Oh well, it was $22.95!
I took it apart to see if i could use the shell to make a autonomous version... And guess what? After some brainstorming, i decided that i can do it. Maybe...
So here's the peices taken apart.
I'm going to add...
- Servos to the arms.
- Servo to move the head.
- two modified servos for the treads.
- Sharp Analog IR Distance sensor on his neck for seeing the world
I'm also going to see if i can salvage the existing board to use the "Wall-E" and "Evaaah" samples 
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