melty brain spinner??

[suvv]

i have seen a few vids of melty brain spinners in operation but i cant for the life of me work out how they work is there a simple explanation somewhere that i can read as im curious about how they are controled

[typhoon_driver]

One successful method pulses the drive motors for the 180 degrees that will send the robot forward in the direction you want to go in. I forget where the info on it was located but I looked into it a while back. Didn't see much point in the featherweights as you would just be flung out of the arena.

[chompalot]

I've started collecting bits for a beetle full body spinner
The melty brain is at http://www.nothinglabs.com/openmelt/

[suvv]

ok thats cool my only question is ther anyone that could make the controller board for me

[typhoon_driver]

short answer, unlikely. People could but those that could would be unlikely to do so as you would be chasing them if a fix or update was required and I doubt you would want to pay a proper hourly rate for their time (I'm making assumptions here) so it would be more of a pain than it's worth for them.

In fact, a quick search on google throws up the open source melty brain spinner as the first result

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=melty+brain+spinner&l=1

Read this as it's what I was using as my basis when I went through the design work. I did have a disc / chassis made from hardox if you were looking for a solid base for such a machine.

Edit - re-read the post further up. repeat link but smeh.

[suvv]

i did read that the problem is that thanks to the powers of my dyslexia that circuit diagram is all but invisible (really a pain in the ass sometimes) i was more meaning would someone be able to physically make the circuit or failing that has a diagram in a darker shade so that i can read it as im asssuming from the vids that it is almost download and go but i would be doing what he does and make a prototype first to check it works befor i make it lethal

[typhoon_driver]

ahh right, then that's something different entirely. I'll leave this one up to someone else as it's outwith my expertise

[suvv]

thanks for the help though

[chompalot]

Melty Brain Progress

There is a link towards the bottom of the page with a schematic which is a bit clearer

http://www.nothinglabs.com/openmelt/meltykytkenta.png

I've just ordered the Baby orangutan B-328 and the serial interface so I can program it.

The only downside to this is that they've used really expensive bits some of which have to come from the states.

I had thought that I'd use an arduino nano but he's specified a 20MHz processor and the arduino is 16MHz.

Just trying to get my head around WinAVR, which doesn't seem to bad.

Soon be time to put the chassis together.