R.O.O.S.T.E.R.

Thanks guys, I'm doing my best and I try to work on it as often as possible, even though school and my internship are eating all my time...

@Raybot Well if you really want to, I can provide you with all the CAD files and the parts list of everything I used. I might even be able to have some the parts manufactured for you, though that might become (very) expensive. Mine where made at my internship (www.tristrambudel.com) and some I made myself(got all the blueprints, or I can make them).

@Niek Yea, I'm a mechanical engineering student, currently in my 3rd year at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam(HvA).

Here's another update,

After I had almost completely finished the new drive system I noticed that some of the plastic parts of of my suspension where a bit too flexible. So I figured lets exchange them with aluminum parts.

The new parts include:

• Aluminum Shocktowers
• Aluminum Suspension arms
• Aluminum Gearbox mounts

On the ToDo List:

• Parts that connect the old Dagu 6wd frame to the new drive system.
• Reinforcement parts for the differential gearboxes.
• Other stuffs. (maybe even some 3D printed stuffs, have been designing/building a printer at my internship and it has to be tested one way or another, it's some awesome timing with the Revolution and all >.< )

Another update: Approaching the end of the upgrade of the propulsion system used in this project. Today I had the time to install some new parts, that I designed:

Only a few (2 new ones) more parts and then I'm finished with this part of the project. So... I'm already thinking about new things to desgin and add, maybe a brushless gimbal, just because they're awesome and I'll have smooth video once I've added a wireless camera. And I'm thinking about adding a rotation pad for the arm, also thinking about a stock model of the arm with another EZ-b and potmeters so if you'd change the position of the stock model, the arm would copy it. But I'll keep thinking about it, in 1 or 2 weeks I'm starting an rc tricopter build as "mini" project (no EZ-b involved, maybe in the future) based on the Rotor Bones Batbone from FliteTest.

To be continued.

Sweet !

It has been a while since my last update. But the project hasn't stopped, it has only been on hold for a while. Since my last update I've made a lot of changes to the R.O.O.S.T.E.R. and most of them aren't visible.

It now looks like:

The entire drive system upgrade has been succesful. After a long time of testing and tuning, everything works, from the axles to the gearboxes and front and aft stearing.

So what am I now working on? Well, some of you might know that I have bought a Kangaroo X2, to controll the sabertooth that drives my motors. To use a Kangaroo X2 you need either analog sensors or quadrature encoders as feedback. For the last few days I've been building a circuit to condition the signals coming from 4 IR reflectance sensors.

I started of with building the circuit on my breadboard and testing it.

It all seems to be working as planned, so today I started with stuffing it in to something smaller. And after some midnight soldering it looks like

So far its only half done. I still need to add the components of the last 2 channels. But I was proud enough that I thought I'd show it before it's done. Never had any education about this, just the internetz.

I'm going to try to finish it tomorrow or somewhere next week, so I can test it with the Kangaroo X2.

@budel0 hay i like to make this to but will u please tell me that what parts r u using on this? full detail BOM

and please tell the full procedure to with photos or diagram if possible.

cool!

awesome looking bot