Insectroïdes based on the philosophy of BEAM robotics
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Insectroïdes based on the philosophy of BEAM robotics

    

Schematics

Here is a BIG collection of Schematics. Many thanks to BEAM-online who , without him, I couldn't have bring you this wonderful page. To build any of these circuit, you will need to know the pins layout of the components. Click here to go to the pins layout page.

All of the shematics were made with Paint Image Bitmap

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Solar engines ( SE )

- FLED SE

-1381 SE

- LM3909 SE

- MILLER SE

- variable MILLER SE

- Hyperpopper Power SE


Photovores ( battery and solar power photovore ) 

- BEAM ant 

- LM3909 photovore 

- 1381 photovore 

- FLED photovore 

- Xvore from Wilf Rigter


Walkers 

- Almost complete walker schematic 

- 4 motors walker ( using 4 Bicores ) 

- 4 non modify servo motors walker ( ServoCore ) 

- Microcore 

- Pulse Neutralisation Circuit ( PNC ) for Microcore 


Bicore 

- Suspend bicore 

- Light seeking Bicore 


Motor drivers 

- H-bridge ( 6 transistors ) 

- Free form H-bridge ( 6 transistors ) 

- 74ALS245 motor drive 

- Simple H-bridge BAL6686 


Snake 

- Bicore ( master-slave ) 

- ServoCore 

- Master Salve Monocore 


Complete walker schematic

• 74HCT240 

• 4 x .22 uF bi-polar capacitors (Violet) 

• 30 uF capacitor (Yellow) 

• 2 x 47K resistors (Green) 

• 3 x 1.6M resistors (Red) 

• 2.5M resistor (Blue) 

• Motor drivers (H-bridge) + Geared motors (servos) (M) 

• Tactile Sensor

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4 motors walker >CLICK on the image to see it BIGGER<

4motorswalker.gif (16272 octets)

• 4 x 74HCT240 

• 8 x 0.1uf capacitor ( read note )

• 4 x 2.2M resistor 

• 2 x 4.3M resistor 

• 1M resistor 

• 4 x motors (servos motors) 

The value of the capacitors can be different from a robot to a other. It really depend of the type of motors you use. If you have a low RPM ( Rotation Per Minute ) ( turning slow ), you need to but bigger value for the capacitors. But in the other hand, if you have a high RPM ( turning fast  ), you need to but smaller value for the capacitors. You need to EXPERIMENT. It won't kill you to try different resistors and capacitors value. You will learn from you experiment.

If you want to put a reverser to the walker, put it where you see the R on the drawing below. 


I think you need to put a H-bridge to control the servos or motors. 

Don't forget to check out the Scout walker 2 from Solarbotics.

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4 non-modify servo walker 

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4servoswalker2.gif (12433 octets)

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The Microcore  >CLICK on the image to see it BIGGER<

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• All capacitors value are 0.22uf Bi-polar 
• All resistors are 1 MegW 
• Power from 3 Volts to 10 Volts 

**Click Here for more information about the Microcore Circuit**

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Auto PNC (Process Neutralization Circuit) 

• 2 x diode 1N4148 


You just add these two diodes to your microcore. When you power the microcore you will achieve the single process state. 

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Bicore


• 74HCT240 

• 2 x .22uF bi-polar caps ( 224 on cap ) 

• 100K to 10M ohm resister the resistor goes between the two (R) 

• Motor 

• 3V 

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Phototropic Bicore 

• 74HCT240 

• 2 x .22uF bi-polar caps ( 224 on cap ) 

• 2 x Photodiodes 

• Geared Motor (M) 

• 3V 

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Free form H-bridge 


• 2 x 100K or higher resistors 

• 4 x NPN 2N3904 Transistors 

• 2 x PNP 2N3906 Transistors 

• Motor (M) 

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H-bridge 

 

• 2 x 100K or higher resistors 

• 4 x NPN 2N3904 Transistors 

• 2 x PNP 2N3906 Transistors 

• Motor (M) 

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Driver

 

• 2 x 74ALS245 


You can stack chips to double the output current. 

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Simple motor driver

 

• BAL6686 

**Chick here for more information** 

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Master Slave Monocore from Wilf Rigter

 

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Robot Snake 1 

 

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Robot Snake 2 

 

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