Monday Feb. 15th, 2016

I still do not have a clear idea of exactly how I will run the motors…but…I know for sure I can run the two motors from one Arduino board.

I also know that I can send and receive data on any of the pins on one Arduino from another Arduino or from a PC.

So…while this tumbles around in my head, I continued the dis assembly and cleaning.

I have a couple of these and 1 or 2 will remain intact and the other will be the one I am rebuilding.

After drilling out a few more rivets, I drilled other clearance mounting holes and then cut a piece of clear acrylic for mounting on top of the top shoulder mount where the head will mount.

<I might make this piece much thicker to allow a servo to mount on it for a method of rotating the head.>

The rear bottom where the back wheels mount  had a tray riveted in and I drilled that out so that I can run bolts into it in case I need to reverse it and keep the tray facing the opposite direction.

I am going to mount a couple of Arduino boards to the front plane so that I can control a few sensors.

I will mount a couple more Arduino boards on the back of the front plane to control the arms.

The motor control boards will go on the top of the bottom tray where the direction motor mounts.

The speech and communication boards will likely mount on the top under the head.  I could mount them underneath that top mount if protection is necessary.

I remove all the components from the robot and disassembled his frame so that I could use nuts and bolts instead of having rivets in the frame, which makes it harder to mount everything.