[islandlabs] Robot Building Enhancements

[gabe at bigapplehobbies.com]

That could work. Or maybe a series of skinny (2”) tubes along the base — cheaper, lighter, etc. Maybe we can try it in diff-size plastic bottles and see how it looks.

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> On Aug 5, 2018, at 10:40 PM, Richard Siena <rich at richardsiena.com> via List <list at lists.islandlabs.org> wrote:
> 
> Maybe put it in the hand of the pit droid and say it is a power cell
> 
>  
> ..Rich
>  
> 
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [islandlabs] Robot Building Enhancements
> From: "Bill Burns <bot779 at protonmail.com> via List"
> <list at lists.islandlabs.org>
> Date: Sun, August 05, 2018 9:49 pm
> To: Island Labs mailing list <list at lists.islandlabs.org>
> 
> Hey guys:
> 
> Sure, we could add a $5 raspberry pi (0W) to the robot, figure out a way to get it to sense some signals from the radio receiver.. figure out a way to attach a speaker and play some interesting sound clips...
> 
> We could add some cosplay features, like a cape and darth vader helmet, etc..
> 
> But:
> Since we've already got high power, high current, sensitive electronics and the potential for sparks...
> I figured that the next *natural* step would be to add water to that mix.
> 
> What could possibly go wrong?
> I don't know.
> but we could end up w/ something that looks like this:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iC6kGC0N6s
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0x5p83g91s&t=1m48s
> Maybe this would make a decent lower-half for the robot?
> 
> To make it, take water and add this:
> https://www.amazon.com/Shimmer-Powder-Cosmetic-Slice-Moon/dp/B008H3NJ4G/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1397076546&sr=8-3&keywords=mica+powder
> possibly add alcohol if you want to make sure nothing grows in it.
> 
> I've got some "bath sparkles" that we could experiment with.
> I will reimburse up to $10 if someone wants to order the real thing.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> using external input chips from the raspberry pi:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2S-1y-aWc
> (kind of long)
> 
> useful comments re: reading PWM via an external chip.
> https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/9787/pwm-input-in-raspberry-pi
> (read the comments. original post doesn't help)
> 
> how to do audio output on a Raspberry Pi GPIO pin:
> https://www.tinkernut.com/2017/04/adding-audio-output-raspberry-pi-zero-tinkernut-workbench/
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