OctoMY™ on github

I decided to wrap my current code into a project and put it on github. I also made a project page on google sites and bought a domain name for it. The logo I sketched out real quick in inkscape looks like this:

Logo for eight legged madness!

Logo in SVG format can be downloaded here

Currently I have just posted my work-in-progress code that compiles without errors on Ubuntu, but that does not really do anything useful. I will keep this updated as I progress in making the code more useful!

Choice of interconnect

I have been looking at different ways of connecting the different tiers of the robot that facilitates the following characteristics:

• Real-time
• Fault tolerant
• Embedded
• Low-power
• Broadcast friendly
• Master-less (survives
• Adaptive (survives topology changes)
• Bus architecture (many nodes)
• "Fast"

So far the most likely candidate seems to be CANbus.



I will investigate further.