Imagine a tube, 50mm diameter and 100mm long. A wheel on either end but not central, closer to the edge and driven by an adapted servo. The centre has a smaller, 10mm, tube embedded through it and the connecting wires exit through here. Initially, this will be a stand alone buggy that will steer and travel by the use of the wheels alone. This will require a weight in the bottom of the larger tube in order to keep it in the correct position relative to the wheels. Control will be, hopefully, by a Bluetooth system and should be fairly simple to manage in this first incarnation. The trundle will then become a test bed for most of the basic scripting requirements.
If you look up Trundle on the web, you will find it is the name of a hill fort. My use of the name is based on the concept of a wheeled vehicle that 'trundles' along.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please add your comments here. We check most days and all suitable comments will be published.