1. Principles and practices

This week I worked on defining my final project idea and started to getting used to the documentation process. Link to final project page .

Concept

Dragon Robot is a gesture controlled robot using an accelerometer to detect the hand movements & Bluetooth modules for circuits to communicate with each other. I have used Attiny microcontrollers & two DC motors. I wanted to make a dragon robot because I am interested in robotics & I like dragons. It can be used to encourage others to learn more about robotics.

Electronics

I have used Eagle design program to design circuits with Attiny microcontroller for controller & dragon. Also, I used two HC-05 Bluetooth modules for communication, accelerometer & DC motor driver with two DC motors.

Design

I used 3D builder to design the dragon body & used Pepakura to convert it to 2D. Then, I used laser cutter to cut the paper & putted layers of resin on assembled parts. I made some modifications to the head part to make the controller case. I used Inkscape to design the acrylic base & laser cut it.