Freeing Humans From Work.
A documentation of my build of the Open Dynamic Robot Initiative’s BOLT robot.
After a long time in the making (starting back in June of 2020) my build of the Open Dynamic Robot Initiative’s BOLT has been completed. Below was a power and sensor test utilizing the BoltHumanoid driver package. After re-crimping some of the encoder wiring which prevented indexing, everything worked quite well. Overall I have to …
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I am continuing my test of a single actuator, microdriver, masterboard setup. This post will focus on Flashing ODRI’s Microdriver V2. I ordered my Microdrivers V2 (uDriver) from SEEED , by uploading the following files in order: Production time totaled 26 days. Once received I prepared the uDrivers according to the Open Dynamic Robot Initiative …
My flavor of Bolt includes FDM actuators printed in PETG, machined pulleys I sourced myself, electronic hardware I sourced myself, in addition to the DIY approach to motor shaft assemblies. As such, I have been keen to test ODRI Bolt masterboard, microdriver, and actuator before assembling the complete Bolt to ensure that my manufacturing skills …
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As I mentioned in my post about setting up a development machine I spent a fair amount of time understanding the right versions of packages and applications for my development machine. The Open Dynamic Robot Initiative has conveniently provided a couple of Dockers to support compiling and running Bolt Software. In maintaining the containerized mentality …
In an effort to create an ODRI development machine for the development of my BOLT, I have tried the path of a local development environment on Ubuntu 18.04. However, even with the setup scripts I have found dealing with the nuances between python 3.6 and 3.8 when compiling the master SDK as well as an …