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Imp is a 4 inch cube biped walking robot, controlled by a PicAxe40x2 with 32k external memory.
Imp is driven by four servos and powered by three AA cells.
The spurs front and rear are to aid it getting up if fallen over.
The red and green LEDs are for an indication of what Imp is thinking, they are on portB.
The forward facing clear LEDs are high power orange for illuminating obstacles, detected by the black shrouded phototransitors next to them.
As can be seen at 2014-11-07 there are downward facing LEDs and phototransistors for detecting table edges and black areas.
Long range sensing can be done by the Ultrasonic ranger module.
Imp can play sounds and Ring-tunes from its onboard speaker.
Imp can store hundreds of poses and command strings in its memory.
Imp can be instructed by commands from a Sony IR remote-control.
The full set of instructions can be sent serially as text over cable or a plugin radio module.
Imp has onboard a full set of help files.

Gallery Sections

  • 2021-04-16
  • 2017-08-01 - Painted Chassis
  • 2014-02-14 - Imp in some poses, bow, please, tiptoes, goof, P11
  • 2014-11-07 - Imp under power and with a program
  • 2014-10-28 - Imp with its brain
  • 2014-10-13 - relative size of Bambino and Imp

    2021-04-16

    2017-08-01 - Painted Chassis

    2014-02-14 - Imp in some poses, bow, please, tiptoes, goof, P11

    2014-11-07 - Imp under power and with a program

    2014-10-28 - Imp with its brain

    2014-10-13 - relative size of Bambino and Imp