12 August 2013

I'm a dragonfly!

OK, you have to watch the second video to get the dragonfly reference, but I like this first video for showing off the lights a little bit more:


This shows it a little more in action and how I'm going to actually be moving in it...


Overall, I am absolutely thrilled for how it's performing. Course, to get it to that point, I've done a ridiculous amount of work, hacking, and polishing. Maybe it wouldn't have been as big a deal if I hadn't burned three hours on Saturday messing with electrical connections and trying to figure out why the lights didn't work only to realize that my Arduino's battery was dying and causing the SPI signals to get lost. Fail.

Next step is to tweak some wiring that didn't quite work once on my body and finish the arm coverings. Then it's off that thing in the desert!

Happy happy :D