Solar battery creeping beetle
I have long wanted to build such a beetle so that it was small, crawled almost like a real one, did not ask for food, but would feed on the sun.
What can I say. There are micro-robots . There are wire robots that imitate the movements of insects due to pure mechanics. There are robots on solar batteries .
Well, so that all together?
Absolutely everything could not be achieved, but the attempt to make such a robot was definitely a success.
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The basis was Chinese-made products - “the world's smallest solar-powered machine”, “Chinese alarm clock”; and Russian-made products - paper clips.
1. Construction peeped on roboforum.ru . And there they say that they spied it on some Czech website about beam-robots. Here's what I got.
Each leg of the beetle at one end is attached to the crankshaft, and the other is inserted into the hole intended for it in the skeleton of the robot. The shaft is spinning - the bug goes over the legs.
2. TTX components.
a) Solar panel. 0.5V 0.06-0.12A
b) Engine - unknown labeling. Taken from cars. According to my estimates, it produces 2000 rpm at a voltage of 0.5V and a current of 0.12A.
c) The Chinese alarm clock was disassembled and a 1:40 gearbox was assembled from its gears.
3. How to solder clips.
a) Wrap one wire around the other.
b) Put some rosin and melt it into the joint.
c) Leans against the joint of solder.
d) Heat the joint from the opposite side until a little solder is absorbed into it.
4. Features of solar panels.
Checked the beetle on our winter sun. If you tilt it so that the rays fall at an angle close to 90, then the beetle crawls.
An ordinary incandescent lamp provided good illumination: bring the lamp to the robot and it starts to buzz.
The first version of the robot was assembled without a gearbox - I just wanted to do something that could jerk my legs away from the light. With some attempt, I managed to achieve this and this is what happened.
The beetle very quickly went through the legs, but the power was not enough to drag its weight and resist friction in the structure. It was necessary to do the gearbox to reduce the speed, but to increase the torque of the shaft.
By trial and error, having spoiled a couple of gears and having spent one more evening, I nevertheless assembled a new version of the robot.
And He crawled!
I didn’t want to stop at what had been achieved, and the “human” species was betrayed by the bug.
And given the human name - Antoshka.
What can I say. There are micro-robots . There are wire robots that imitate the movements of insects due to pure mechanics. There are robots on solar batteries .
Well, so that all together?
Absolutely everything could not be achieved, but the attempt to make such a robot was definitely a success.
')
The basis was Chinese-made products - “the world's smallest solar-powered machine”, “Chinese alarm clock”; and Russian-made products - paper clips.
1. Construction peeped on roboforum.ru . And there they say that they spied it on some Czech website about beam-robots. Here's what I got.
Each leg of the beetle at one end is attached to the crankshaft, and the other is inserted into the hole intended for it in the skeleton of the robot. The shaft is spinning - the bug goes over the legs.
2. TTX components.
a) Solar panel. 0.5V 0.06-0.12A
b) Engine - unknown labeling. Taken from cars. According to my estimates, it produces 2000 rpm at a voltage of 0.5V and a current of 0.12A.
c) The Chinese alarm clock was disassembled and a 1:40 gearbox was assembled from its gears.
3. How to solder clips.
a) Wrap one wire around the other.
b) Put some rosin and melt it into the joint.
c) Leans against the joint of solder.
d) Heat the joint from the opposite side until a little solder is absorbed into it.
4. Features of solar panels.
Checked the beetle on our winter sun. If you tilt it so that the rays fall at an angle close to 90, then the beetle crawls.
An ordinary incandescent lamp provided good illumination: bring the lamp to the robot and it starts to buzz.
The first version of the robot was assembled without a gearbox - I just wanted to do something that could jerk my legs away from the light. With some attempt, I managed to achieve this and this is what happened.
The beetle very quickly went through the legs, but the power was not enough to drag its weight and resist friction in the structure. It was necessary to do the gearbox to reduce the speed, but to increase the torque of the shaft.
By trial and error, having spoiled a couple of gears and having spent one more evening, I nevertheless assembled a new version of the robot.
And He crawled!
I didn’t want to stop at what had been achieved, and the “human” species was betrayed by the bug.
And given the human name - Antoshka.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/133843/
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