Category Archive: HyLo

MonkeyBot, Ready to Swing

MonkeyBot, Ready to Swing

The structural failures have been remedied and MonkeyBot back in action. We’ve had the bot swing around some and the servos are better than I …

 

Full Assembly and Failure

Full Assembly and Failure

After getting in a few of the remaining pieces, the team put together the remainder of MonkeyBot.Arm Assembly Detail We were eager to see the bot …

 

MonkeyBot, in Plastic

MonkeyBot, in Plastic

The body and passive claw for MonkeyBot have been laser cut and partially assembled.The following are photos of the parts and the passive claw. All the …

 

MonkeyBot, in Pixels

MonkeyBot, in Pixels

This Thursday’s meeting was particularly productive. The body group and passive claw group finalized their designs for laser cutting tomorrow. The Mechanical Engineering Shop got …

 

MonkeybarBot Prototyping

MonkeybarBot Prototyping

In this week’s hardware meeting, the group moved forward with the insight gained from the previous meeting’s activities. Last week the group prototyped basic ideas to …

 

Conceptualization

Conceptualization

At the Thursday meeting this week we discussed some high level goals and brainstormed about the simplest way to go about independently solving each problem. Below …

 

HyLo Software Meeting

HyLo Software Meeting

This meeting introduced members to ODE. ODE (Open Dynamic Engine, www.ode.org) is an open source dynamics simulation package. In HyLo, this software will be used to …

 

First HyLo Meeting

First HyLo Meeting

HyLo Meeting 9/9/10Topics Project Intro Documentation Past HyLo’s New Goals Current Direction and short term Objectives Resources IntroductionWelcome to the HyLo Project. This project group is about making robotic platforms that …

 

Stairbot -> HyLo

Stairbot -> HyLo

With the upcoming semester looming, there is a need to get the Hybrid Locomotion project back on its feet. Stairbot is now named HyLo. Our …