Serpentronic – A Robotic Snake
This project was completely revised in 2013 to run on an Arduino platform.
New printed circuit boards were designed by Kivanc Yildiz for the controller
and servo bus. Both are available, along with an Arduino sketch in this
section. Serpentronic takes a highly focused and hardworking student
one year to construct (Vaughn Cherrin 2009).
Readings
Karl Williams, Amphibionics, Build Your Own Biologically Inspired Robot, 2003
5. Serpentronic, page 117–189
| Constructor: Vaughn Cherrin | Photographer: Derek Wu, June 2009 |
Project Photographs
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| Photographer - Derrick Wu, June 2009 | |
Click on the images to view more photographs of Serpentronic projects at Churchill.
Serpentronic Arduino Controller, Bus & Sketches
An Arduino controller and servo bus was successfully breadboarded
and tested by Kivanc Yildiz (2012–2013). He designed a printed circuit
board for both the controller and the servo bus using Proteus Isis.
With the assistance of Mr. Ahmet Yildiz, P.Eng, a computer program,
Slither, was added to this resource package.
Each of the six female servo connectors is mounted directly to a male
header soldered to the bus. Traces for a common ground and power
supply (Vcc) simplify the wiring harness. Each signal connector to the
servo has its own strain relief hole. Insulated, twenty-two gauge (AWG)
stranded copper wire completes the harness attachment to the controller.
Project Photographs
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| Photographs, Kivanc Yildiz, 2013 | |
Video of Bench Test
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2D-V6h3MGkUdkkyMFZ5TXgyRGc/editArduino PCB Masks (Proteus Isis)
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Kivanc Yildiz (Grad 2013) contributed the designs.
Arduino Sketches
Kivanc Yildiz, 2013
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Construction Drawings
Click the image to view the .pdf file or the text below it for the .dwg file.
