Anyone who is interested in robotics might find my latest robot, Apeiros, to be of value. I have launched a Kickstarter project to help raise enough funding, so that I can procure injection mold tooling for my robot’s body. If I can bring this robot to market, then I will release all the mechanical and electrical hardware designs along with any software that I have created.
The “brains” of Apeiros is the chipKIT™ UNO32™ board by Digilent(R) Inc. Apeiros has been designed to be expandable, so that end-users can perform more advanced experiments and investigations by simply purchasing additional hardware as needed. I have integrated multiple design features that support various add-on shields and mechanical hardware. At this time I have designed and tested a total of (4) add-on shields: (1) Motor control & IR sensors, (2) Gripper control & line following sensors, (3) Vision & SRAM Memory shield and (4) WiFi & light sensor shield.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/477 … bile-robot
http://www.abotics.com/images/Apeiros_Basic_Img2_Thumb
Regards, Abe