{"id":13718,"date":"2016-05-10T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=13718"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T17:04:04","slug":"the-100-minute-robot-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/the-100-minute-robot-build\/","title":{"rendered":"The 100 Minute Robot Build"},"content":{"rendered":"

Embarrassing confession time. For someone whose job is 90% robot building, I have a surprising dearth\u00a0of robots right now. So when Jesse, our video editor, was asking around for any available robots for a quick video shoot, sadly, I had none to provide.<\/p>\n

But that didn’t mean I couldn’t deliver!<\/p>\n

I asked Jesse to give me two hours to build him a robot from scratch. With all the parts we have around the Digilent Makerspace, I figured I could cobble together\u00a0something<\/em> in well under two hours… The game was afoot!<\/p>\n

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\"Robot<\/p>\n

I quickly gathered together my supplies. A 3D printed robot chassis<\/a>, uC32 <\/a>and Basic IO Shield<\/a>, a couple of gear-motors and wheels, a 9 volt battery and connector for power, and some double-sided tape! Also tea. Tea is very important.<\/p>\n