NYPD robot cop can't go down or up stairs by itself, but "patrols" the subway. I put it in quotes because it seems to need 5 human cops in order to be out in public.
Binary test video, finally added the head to the body and love how it looks, I wanted Binary to be unique enough to stand out from Wall-E or Jonny-5 and I feel these wheels are definitely doing it. I still have to add more leds and and playe covering. #maker#wip#robot#Tech
Tonight I spent some time weathering my baby astromech. I think I over did it on the dome a bit so I might need to bring back the orange parts a bit. Tomorrow I’ll be putting all the #electronics back inside and finishing up the last bits of code to get the mouth to flash in time to the audio (which sounds easy but the head is running a separate microcontroller to the body!)
The Ingenuity team has nicknamed the spot where the helicopter completed its final flight “Valinor Hills” after the fictional location in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels, which include “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.