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You must see this swimming robot snake.

Graham StablerGraham Stabler Posts: 2,510
edited 2006-10-24 20:36 in Propeller 1
This is absolutlely amazing:

www-robot.mes.titech.ac.jp/robot/snake/acm-r5/acm-r5_e.html

Watch the video in the water.

This one uses a processor per segement and they are sort of networked, I would have thought the propeller could do the whole lot. That would be seriously amazing. My interest is in micro stuff so it would have to be micro servos, I've heard of those down to silly prices.

Graham

Post Edited (Graham Stabler) : 10/19/2006 10:27:13 PM GMT

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  • cbmeekscbmeeks Posts: 634
    edited 2006-10-19 23:37
    goodness.....that is tremendous

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  • HarleyHarley Posts: 997
    edited 2006-10-20 00:03
    Wow!!! freaked.gif For sure not a 'hobbyist' effort. Lots of shekels in such a project.

    Amazing to see the swimming video. Now, if it could come out of the water on it's own. Interesting how many different robots the Japanese have funded. Glad to see so many into it, whether hobby or not.

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  • James LongJames Long Posts: 1,181
    edited 2006-10-20 03:30
    Man I miss my broadband............have dialup now.....eeeewwwwwww.........can't even get broad band....unless I do two way satelite.



    Psch.



    James L
  • CJCJ Posts: 470
    edited 2006-10-20 03:42
    same here

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  • cbmeekscbmeeks Posts: 634
    edited 2006-10-20 16:46
    oh "quitcherwhining"

    Back in my day, my "internet" connection was a 300 baud modem on my Commodore 64. :P

    hehehe

    cbmeeks

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  • Graham StablerGraham Stabler Posts: 2,510
    edited 2006-10-20 17:10
    I'm beginning to wish I hadn't posted the link.

    Would anyone like me to post it to them on 3.5" floppies?

    [noparse]:)[/noparse] + as many winks as are needed not to cause offence [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    Graham
  • James LongJames Long Posts: 1,181
    edited 2006-10-20 18:37
    I remember those days. I can remember when Compuserve and AOL were new.

    Those were the days.

    Hey I could get 2 way sat.....I just hate to fork out the moola.

    James L
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2006-10-21 19:47
    It looks like it has a camera. There's a ring of LEDs in front, surrounding what looks like a lens.

    -Phil
  • Graham StablerGraham Stabler Posts: 2,510
    edited 2006-10-21 19:55
    Your right it does.

    I'm wondering what the radio range is underwater.

    Graham
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2006-10-21 20:06
    I wondered about that, too. Maybe they just record the video for later playback.

    -Phil
  • Graham StablerGraham Stabler Posts: 2,510
    edited 2006-10-22 13:34
    byond reading the webpage you could email them or try and track down any technical papers they have produced.

    Graham
  • Graham StablerGraham Stabler Posts: 2,510
    edited 2006-10-22 21:05
    I suspect it was not operating autonomously in the video and was backed away by the user. It is definatly a camera.

    Another video here, shows the joint mechanisms, the camera and the mechanism to keep the camera level (I think)

    Another video

    Graham
  • AImanAIman Posts: 531
    edited 2006-10-24 19:36
    FYI - a radio controlled submarine that I saw in a hobby store about 2 years ago has a limit of 10 ft. The cheap subs only have a depth equal to the depth of the antenna.
  • Graham StablerGraham Stabler Posts: 2,510
    edited 2006-10-24 20:36
    That's still better than I expected. The video however is an interesting one, we can only assume its not 2.4Ghz or the poor thing would be cooked alive.

    Graham
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