What will it do?

A robot with appearance of guinea pig that uses a modification of the mechanism of Theo Jansen for your movement and interacts with the user.
The robot is part of my project to make a mobile station of rapid detection of disease by means of image processing techniques.

Who's done what beforehand?

Mio Kato development in acrylic the mechanism of Theo Jansen and in the FabLab Colombia they did a workshop on this mechanism, but so far I am not aware if someone adapted the mechanism to do a quadruped robot and that this project serve as platform for a social project with greater implications.

What materials and components will be required?

Initially for this phase of the prototype, it requires the following

A extruded acrylic sheet
Allen bolts of M3 of 15mm along
Nuts for the M3 bolts
Nuts of nylon for the bolts
One threaded rod M5
Nuts for the threaded rod
Two servo motors
Atmega 328p
One capacitor 1uF
One capacitor of 0.1 uF
One resistor of 10k
One resistor of 1k
One resistor of 0
1 led
Headers
1 cupper board
Cables of conection
PLA
1 battery 9v
1 battery of lithium 3.7v

Where will they come from?

The majority are laboratory materials, except the sheet of extruded acrylic, bolts, nuts, threaded rods, and servo motors.
The mechanical components I bought are from the Malvinas shopping center in the center of Lima.
The servo motors I bought in ideasmultiples labs, importing company in Lima.
And the acrylic sheet I bought was in Plexicril SAC in Lima.

How much will it cost?

The acrylic sheet cost 30 dolars
In mechanical components cost 17 soles (7 $)
In servo motors cost 12 dolars
The other materials was provided by the laboratory

What parts and systems will be made?

The armour, the electronic system, the mechanical system and the logical system that includes the interface of interaction will be developed.

What processes will be used?

To obtain the skeleton and part of the mechanical, I used the process of mechanical design and modeling with CAD software, in addition to the laser cutting process.
To make the control plate, use the process of schematic design and routing of the board, in addition to the milling process of the copper plate.
To obtain the head, use the process of modeling sculpting the piece and the printing process 3D.

What tasks need to be completed?

I need complete some aspects about the mechanism of my robot.

What questions need to be answered?

What is the schedule?

The electronic design i already have it, the mechanical design also. I lack build it and carry out tests with the prototype.

How will it be evaluated?

The prototype will be tested as part of my project "Rural Tech", which focuses on bringing technology to the rural areas with a familiar face, to solve problems as a lack of basic services in sectors such as health or education.
In April of this year, I participated through my draft of the robot guinea pig in the CIPL (Creative Industries Prototyping Lab) with students of the Comparative Media Studies of MIT.
In this lab I learned a number of things with respect to the post prototype stage, for example, to worry more on the interaction of the prototype with the user (in this case the rural dweller).
Techniques of Design thinking and the business model, in addition to the funding and what that require to get this ambitious project.
This gave me the opportunity to expose the project at the ministry of culture of my country.