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Ive finally got the first weegee 1.1 made. Took a few simple iPhone pics of it for now. Will post more later…

So in continuing my new line of robotics hobby work I believe I’ve chosen a power source and charging method etc for the HWBY robot. At first I started looking at http://talkingelectronics.com/projects/SolarCharger/SolarCharger.html which goes into detail about a pretty decent method of charging a battery with solar cells that don’t output at the same voltage […]

So I finally got the tri-track chassis built and got the weegee 1.1 pcb’s back from the manufacturer. Here are a few pics to show the new board, the size differences, and the platform I’ll be using…

I got my serial camera with jpeg engine and pir senor over the weekend. Now I’m just waiting on the pcbs to come in most likely on Monday or Tuesday!

So, with the Weegee 1.1 finally in production, the HWBY or from now on, Howby, rover is underway. Home, Work, and Backyard for those interested… The chassis will be a lynxmotion (www.lynxmotion.com) tri-track platform with GHM-04 motors with the QME-01 encoders added. These should get me a pretty decent rate of speed if required and […]

After working quite a while on the changes (Actually a lot of the wait was to allow Spymongoose to try and get used to Eagle and submit the microsd portion, which he didn’t 😛 ) I have finally finished the revision to include microsd slot using the SPI port, a jumped to enable or diable […]