Weave

An Evolutionary, Modular Robotics Platform

Weave is my big ongoing robotics project. I wanted to create a series of robots with modular capabilities, and do as much of the work as I can myself. This means: Etching boards, designing circuits, building chassis and programming in Assembly language.

I will be writing up guides and explanations to do with Weave at some point, but for the moment here are some resources.

Weave Project Write-Up

Published 23^rd September 2011

A fairly detailed written summary of the Weave project, including program flowcharts and some schematics.

This is a static PDF document, but I update it whenever an interesting change is made. In the future I will do this via posts here, and compile them into a PDF on completion.

Weave Demo Video

Published 12^th June 2011

A brief walkthrough of Weave’s hardware, and a demonstration of basic (Pre smooth steering) obstacle avoidance.

The Aims

Modularity: I want these robots to be built in a controlled, thoughtful way that allows me to easily maintain, upgrade and cross-pollinate their parts.
Evolution: I would like to build several of these robots, each building on the last in technical, aesthetic and intelligent ways.
Aesthetics: Too many robots look hastily put together, or exhibit bad craftsmanship.
Education: On a more personal level: I want to learn as much as I can from building these robots. I aim to design circuits, design and etch boards, build chassis, etc to develop my skills.
Natural Design: Of both form and programming. I don’t want my code to be a load of messy hacks, I would like to come up with intelligent and natural ways of accomplishing tasks such as avoiding obstacles, following a line, etc.