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Board looks good!

Is it single sided?

Alan KM6VV

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Yep! I'll be drilling the holes and soldering the components on tomorrow so I'll upload another photo when I'm done.

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Hi everyone! Sorry about not updating but I've been pretty busy (university interviews and stuff ) but I have made a new B.A.O.U.S Board - I realised that V1.0 was printed on backwards so it wouldn't have worked .

Anyways, the new board is all nice and proper and I've finished drilling the holes and I'm soldering the components as we speak - here are some photos of the new board (it's smaller than the other one as well; measures about 8.3x5.3cm). Enjoy!

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Here's a photo for size comparison of B.A.O.U.S Board V1.0 to V2.0.

P.S. I ran out of solder , so I'll have to stop for now and buy some more tomorrow.

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I've finished all the soldering for the board and I think it looks pretty decent - I'll upload a photo of it in a bit but at the moment I'm having an aesthetics problem:

What kind of colours should I use for the Mantis robot? The current colour scheme for the legs is BLACK/RED so I need something that goes well with both and I would love to have some opinions about this. The colours I can choose from are yellow, red, black, blue, green. Here's a photo of the pieces of plastic:

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Black And green.

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Hmmm...Yeah, that's pretty cool!
I'm just trying to visualize the colour sequence for the robot brackets.

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i know you cant really "mix" the colours but it would look cool if you could.
Just a quick idea:

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That's very nice and thanks for the comment!
I may not be able to mix colours but what I'm going for (well, trying to go for) a lot in this project is having multiple colours in the different brackets - the photo below should hopefully explain what I mean:



I've been experimenting with various designs for different parts of the robot and I've currently got this design for the arm - it's a bit unorthodox but it's only a design so modifications will come .



Also, since the Mantis uses its legs and arms to walk, would I have to try to make the front of the arm a suitable shape so it can walk properly or could I leave the heavy walking to the 4 legs and use the arms and brief support for the movement?

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P.S. The shaded parts of the drawing represent the parts that will be replaced with cut-outs of different colour.

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I've managed to sketch the general shape of the head and I'm working on some nice eye designs to make it look awesome - I think I might line bend the head through the centre to give the inner angle as being about 150 degrees or so. I'll cut it out tomorrow and experiment a little.

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nice idea.
how did you manage to mount the two colors together?


did you cut the outline (negative) into the black part and then cut a (positive) from the red and push or insert the red into the black?

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Yep. I did exactly that; cut the outline out in the black and then cut around the red pieces to make them fit.

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I managed to get a fair amount of stuff done today (in the means of cutting out brackets) - I made the main torso and the 4 servo brackets required for the arms (2 servo brackets per arm).

I managed to start experimenting with the head design as well. It's going to be made up of multiple layers; each of different colours and so far I have the first layer (the basic front face) completed.

Here are some photos!

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And you're able to bend the 3mm Acrylic plastic for the Arm Bracket? Using temperature?

Great job!

How do the Acrylic brackets hold up? How well does it bend?

Alan KM6VV
(mostly metal)

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