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Time Required to Complete Initial Programming

Boe-Bot SumoBot The Toddler QuadCrawler HexCrawler

40 hours 40 hours 60 hours 20 hours 20 hours

This is what it says on the parallax web site is it true that i takes 40 hours to program the boe bot that a long time did they mean 40 mins. cry that is a long time i dont have that much time to write programs i just boght the boe bot for $61 with tax and two day shipping hop jumpin idea roll lol that cheap right im new to boe bots and parallax i am a mindstorm fan freaked

go to my web site to see some of my advanced lego mindstorm robots and soon to be boe bots\

ok ethan steckmann

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I belive there refering to the acualle amount of time it takes to work threw all the projects.
·As for my boebot, I have spent way beyond that by constantly upgrading sensors, and trying new things, or trying different aproches.....

LoopyByteloose

You can do it much quicker and learn nothing.
You may be missing the point.

Every journey starts with a single step. If you really want to learn more and keep learning more, don't dread the time invested.
This is about enjoying the journey as much as about the destination.

I started my Toddler two years ago and I really haven't felt the need to finish it. I am still learning what I want to do and how to do it.
I experiment and change the design and experiment some more.

By the way, I did finish the 'initial programming' in less than the 60 hours. That is just a guide for people that are shopping.

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AIman

The short answer is it depends on what you want to do.

If you want to assemble and run a simple program it will take much less then 40 hours. I had my first BS2 driven robot built in about 2 hours (without using a manual for assembly) and·download the program. I·had a functional robot within an hour. All time for building and·downloading the·program·less then·3 hours.

BUT - then I got bored and said "What if... "

Parallax doesn't just·give info on·a simple robot to put together, it also··gives a·starting point so that if you want to go·into more sophisticated robots·you have the basics to do so and if not you can still have fun.

Look at it this way - an hour a day for 2 months (not including weekends) and you have more then covered the time needed


Post Edited (AIman) : 8/28/2006 1:19:57 PM GMT

AIman

By the way - if you are new to robotics you can plan out a biped but don't start with one. My first robot had 8 legs that worked off of gears, and my second robot was a biped - A 6 foot tall humanoid.·They both had issues, the first one with leg movment (used gears - try timing out 8 legs sometime)·with the humanoid·the body flexed too much. Looked cool, but not user friendly. More to the point I spend more time fixing it then anything else.

My third robot was a kit - much more enjoyable even though it wasn't a dream. It helped me learn from other peoples perspectives and start dealing with more sophisticated sensors.

My most recent robot has 6 legs that are driven independantly of each other and are computer controlled. I am expermenting with Pneumatic power (air power) and hydraluics.

So whats my point? Glad you ask.· [noparse]:)[/noparse]·

I started getting into kits and learned much more much faster then doing it on my own.·It took almost 2 years for me to get my first to robots built, they were clanky and slow without much for sensors and nothing for intelligence. More to the point I·spent several weeks constructing the body of my first robot and almost a month on the second.

The next 6 were done in less time and from there on my robots have becoming·much more complex and much more entertaining. BUT, its because of wading through seemingly pointless lessons which I can now see had value but at the time were ... well, dry.

So back to your question of what to do and what you want to build. Start simple and don't lose your dream. If you want to build a robot go for it, if you want to build a bi-ped go for it. But do yourself a huge favor and start simple with the end goal in mind. The problems that crop up with complex robots could be a simple misspelling in a variable that will take a long time to track - or if you worked your way up from simple you will learn how to overcome things like that as you go.
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