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The ambient light sensor will need to be placed near the center or end of the snake, at least far enough away that it will not sense any light aimed towards the head. Just string the other piece of string through. Leave about 10 inches of string on the inside, and a little more on the outside. This string acts solely as a tether. You can eventually lengthen it by attaching another string to it so that you can have a longer tether. Scan the paper, work with illustrator to make sketch look more clear and precise. Allow laser cutter to recognize illustrated sketch.Snakebots are used in situations where their characteristics give them an advantage over their environment. These environments tend to be long and thin like pipes or highly cluttered like rubble. Thus, Snakebots are currently being developed to assist search and rescue teams. When a task requires several different obstacles to be overcome, the locomotive flexibility of SnakeBots potentially offers an advantage. [4] In this step we will be setting up a blinking LED, similar to this instructable tutorial. Though this is a simple step, it might be useful to learn more information about how the setup works, as we will not be going through specifics in this step. Allow the head base fabric to have extra 1 or 2 inch of indent so it has extra room for all the materials to be in the head. Once it is all the way on, I use the string on both sides to hoist the carbon fiber all the way into to the end of the vacuum tube. I tie a knot here to prevent slipping.

SnakeBots are currently being researched as a new type of robotic, interplanetary probe by engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center. Software for SnakeBot is also being developed by NASA for them to be able to learn by experiencing the skills to scale obstacles and remember the techniques. cut length of plastic 5/16" tube to the length of the snake. Slip it over the OUTPUT nozzle on the pump (the more narrow nozzle is the output). I like to briefly blast the junction with a heatgun once I slip on the tube to make the connection nice and snug. Secure a hose-clamp around the tube at the joint. When setting up the project in previous steps, everything was attached pretty closely to the breadboard. If we want out snake to be the full length of the base, we will need to create wire extensions for various portions of the electrical.You should get an integer returned, corresponding to the baud rate xbee is set at. To make sure it is set to 57600, type "ATBD 6" then ENTER.

The vibration motor is added to simulate the a rattling tail on a snake. We were given our vibration motor from class, so we do not have a model number, but just like the other steps of this project, use the size motor that best fits the snake that you are building. We wanted the smallest motor possible, so that it would be able to fit on the small tail piece we were building. Acquire velcro. Cut them into vertical length of balsa wood bases. Make 2 thin pieces for each base pieces. glue the velcro hook on the bottom of the wood base. Allow couple hours until the velcro gets stabled onto the wood. The SnakeBot, also known as a snake robot, is a biomorphic hyper-redundant robot that resembles a biological snake. Snake robots come in many shapes and sizes, from as long as four stories (earthquake SnakeBot developed by SINTEF [1]) to a medical SnakeBot developed at Carnegie Mellon University that is thin enough to maneuver around organs inside a human chest cavity. Though SnakeBots can very greatly in size and design, there are two qualities that all SnakeBot share. The small cross-section-to-length ratios allow them to move into and maneuver through tight spaces and their ability to change the shape of their bodies allows them to perform a wide range of behaviors, such as climbing stairs or tree trunks. Additionally, many snake robots are constructed by chaining together several independent links. This redundancy can make them resistant to failure because they can continue to operate even if parts of their body are destroyed. Properties such as high terrainability, redundancy, and the possibility of complete sealing of the body of the robot, make snake robots very interesting for practical applications and hence as a research topic. [2] [3] A SnakeBot is different from a snake-arm robot in that the SnakeBot robot types are usually more self-contained, where a snake-arm robot usually has remote mechanicals from the arm itself, possibly connected to a larger system. The attached graphs show the output angle values of each servo mapped over time, slightly out of phase from each other. The difference is when there is a different offset (delay in the time it takes one servo to get to the angle of the previous one in the line of waves). A robot snake has been developed by scientists in the race to advance the abilities of search and rescue machines.Use the loop part of velcro, sew it into the fabric. Use strings to sew the velcro into fabric. Sew it by pleating the fabric, so fabric can surround the base in a spherical manner. So if you have the servo shield, solder on the screw terminal; two rows of headers where the 6V and GND from the battery are connected. Solder on male headers so it will mount in your seeeduino (or arduino) mega. I'm using the seeeduino again because i had it around, and because it is smaller so it fits better into the skin tube (the protective outer layer). Acquire fabric of prefered choice. We used green fabric to make it look like somewhat more snake looking. Measure the size of balsa wood base, sketch it on fabric.