1. Assembling the skeleton

After we learned how the adafruit board works, and we got to know the components a bit better, we started with the mechanics of our robot.

We got a list of pre-fabricized lasercutted pieces, which together formed the skeleton of our robot.

We used the servomotors as joints for the body parts : 2 for the legs, 2 for the feet. We connected them with the adafruit board.

An important thing we had to take care of, was the angle of the servometer. We had to make sure that when we assemblied the leg on the hip, the servo was placed in 90 degrees ("the neutral/central point of the servo"). We did this, so that when we turn the joints, we wouldn't be pushing the limits of the servo, but stay right in the middle.




When we were more or less finished with the assembly of the body, we encountered the infrared sensor. Since this were the eyes of our robot, we decided to make a head, so we would turn him more human.