Uni-rex

A robotic t-rex unicorn hybrid ridden by a brave Spartan warrior

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Drinks bottle for scale

Inspiration: dinosaurs and robots are cool/ our landlord doesn't allow pets

What it does: "walks" around and waves it's arms, controlled over WiFi

How we built it: a mishmash of 3d printing; soldering and coding

Challenges we ran into: it kept falling on its face; strip board issues and bitmapping

Accomplishments that we're proud of: compact controller; it's an awful lot faster than we anticipated

What we learned: how to use Arduino; mechanical design; dinosaurs are even cooler now than they were 65 million years ago

What's next for Uni-rex: general aesthetic tidying and appointment as house mascot

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AstonHack 2018

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Conceptual and mechanical design, electronics and assembly including mechanical troubleshooting

George Omar
Main physical construction of the project using 3d Cad and 3d printing along with helping with the electronics and troubleshooting code

Alexander Marchant
I wrote the master arduino code for the controller, taking input and broadcasting it to the motor controller over WiFi, also helped with the slave code and created the board with user inputs

Thomas Turner
Creating the arduino code for the micro controller inside the robot and wiring up the outputs of the controller to the wheel motors and servos.

William Backhouse

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George Omar started this project — Nov 11, 2018 06:17 AM EST

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