Home-made robot doing a perfect quadruple backflip [video]

Post by marchra » Tue, Jul 16, 2013, 2:11 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #18

It'd be really nice if a mod could edit the URL to the actual content creator, so that s/he gets some YouTube likes and subscribes.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 16, 2013, 2:17 PM UTC

aspensmonster wrote: post #2

Well that was cool. But the page doesn't exactly have much in the way of words. Despite the spammy nature of the newslamp.com domain --and despite the spammy nature of the youtube video being in response to Katy Perry's Part of Me music video-- any idea what microcontroller is being used? EDIT: And now this video is rocketing to the top of reddit, number two at the moment. Video is on liveleak.com. Way to give the ac…

Post by future_grad » Tue, Jul 16, 2013, 2:22 PM UTC

Post by restlessmedia » Tue, Jul 16, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

Post by zokier » Tue, Jul 16, 2013, 3:13 PM UTC

eksith wrote: post #11

aspensmonster wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course! I wanted to know the micro-controller used :) Looks like gilgoomesh has a direct link to the creator's actual youtube account as well, not the embedded rip-off from youtube user chrill22, which looks like a typical view farmer. It looks like chrill22 took hinamitetu's "Quadruple Backflip(NO.16)" video, trimmed out the part where hinamitetu was setting the robot up, and then re-upped it. Absolutely infuriat…

That, I'm not too sure of, but it's more than likely a PIC-16 or 18 series. There's a nice write-up from last year on using a PIC16F628A and four servos to build a walking robot. http://www.academia.edu/1767517/Walking_Robot_with_Four_Serv... If you're the tinkering type, it's quite an interesting read. Of course, that's a long way away from a robot that does backflips ;)