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By Abhishek Ghosh February 15, 2012 10:29 pm Updated on February 15, 2012

Guide to Build DIY Robot at Cheaper Cost

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Guide to Build DIY Robot at Cheaper Cost outlines the logics how to approach to build your own robot to perform a predefined work or decision based work. As you do not need a multi functional robot, it will cost hardly $ 500 if you have the ability to learn and build, that is we have named this article as Guide to Build DIY Robot at Cheaper Cost. In this Guide to Build DIY Robot, we will give you important ideas and logics that will help you a lot.

 

Basic Guide to Build DIY Robot at Cheaper Cost

 

The first thing is, it is better if you have UNIX programming skill, otherwise it will just take a bit more time to integrate your dream robot. We have already discussed about the basics of robotics, Multi Agent System, Artificial Intelligence and Cyborg.

 

Plan what you need from your Robot

 

As we have discussed in Robotics Parts,  there are many ready made parts are available and can easily be integrated with your custom UNIX based program which will convey the logics. However, if you try to learn yourself, many (or most) needed parts can be created yourself and that reduced the cost of our robot in this basic Guide to Build DIY Robot to amazingly few hundred folds.

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Quite obviously, you will think of a creating a robot that will help you in practical purpose. In this guide to build DIY Robot, I will just point out and direct you towards a useful and practical robot, if you are thinking we are going to Guide to Build DIY Robot that will look like a human, you are wrong, that might cost few thousand to few million dollars and lot of work hours.

 

Plan and Guide to Build DIY Robot

 

There are three parts in this Guide to Build DIY Robot. First is what you can think about to use a robot, second is how to proceed and third is from where these parts an be purchased.

 

First Part in this Guide to Build DIY Robot

 

Take that you have a bird like me who can talk, partly understand what is going on and can behave rightly after proper training. I want to create a robot that will open the lock of my bird’s cage at proper time so that my bird can roam here and there for few hours. In the mean time, our robot will clean the bird’s feeders and fill them properly. When my bird will will return himself to the cage, it will lock the cage. So the proper working logics are :

  • I need to set the time when my bird usually wants to go out of the cage.
  • But as my bird has some intelligence, he might not be interested to go out on a particular day, in that case my robot will abort the next steps and only perform the checkup and filling of feeders. Otherwise if my bird does not come out, he will die starving if a human is not supervising. So we got two main initial programmatic logics.
  • Now the cleanup process is very simple itself. So as the filling.

 

Hardware and software parts needed in this guide to build a DIY Robot

 

Basically the cage itself is a robot. A simple camera and an infrared sensor can easily guide as the secondary trigger switch, where my set timer is the primary trigger. A feeder can easily be cleaned by making its position towards the gravity – just like when we pour water from from a jug. Few servo motors can make it possible. Practically we need two for this action. Opening and closing doors can be performed with hinge, spring like mechanical parts controlled by a motor – just like elevators. Water force can be used to clean the feeder – when the feeder’s position changes, a water pump will clean it with force of water. When this motor will stop by the timer trigger, the feeder will revert to normal position assisted by a motor. Filing is a separate process as we have said, its trigger is empty feeder not the previous actions.

 

Finalizing your project

First you need a rough sketch of the possible movements along with the intension to reduce the number of complex steps. An element analysis is needed after primary work is done. The last part is creating the hardware components and the final part is to integrate these hardware components so that they work based on your logics.
Guide to Build DIY Robot at Cheaper Cost

Guide to Build DIY Robot at Cheaper Cost : Resources of hardwares

Most connecting part is usually made by the enthusiasts from normally available materials. You can get the motor and other robotics parts from websites like makemyhobby.com and there is an all purpose robotics info site cum shop – societyofrobots.com.

 

Note : We have mentioned of a living creature, a bird in this Guide to Build DIY Robot just to break down the process how robots can be used. Never approach to build your first project associated with a living creature, a minute mistake can hurt the innocent animal.

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About Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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