Solarbotics DragonTail Awakens!
Channel: Solarbotics
Date: 2011-11-07

Say hello to the DragonTail from Solarbotics - a simple robot platform for all your robot platformin' needs. Basically, we set you up with a nifty aluminum base, acrylic top and a front panel with a range of mounting holes for some servos with wheels, an omni-direction caster/roller, and a battery pack.

This video presents the DragonTail + Electronics bundle assembled together and programmed to avoid obstacles. Stay tuned until the end where we do a drop test from 5 feet. The Arduino source code available under the resources tab of each of these products on the Solarbotics website.

We've designed this to be an open-ended platform, so that you can construct it to do what you want it to. But if you want to make it like what's in the video, you'll want this bundle: http://www.solarbotics.com/product/60135/

And this document shows the basic schematic for hooking it all up:
http://content.solarbotics.com/products/documentation/dragontail%20theory%20of%20op.pdf