Objectives:
Dissemination of the final project
The project i developed during fab academy is not aimed to be commercialized, as instead i would like to use it as my bachelor degree thesis subject.
Licenses
The project is divided into software part and hardware part.
The software i wrote is arduino based and i used some of the comunity libraries like:
- PID_v1 https://playground.arduino.cc/Code/PIDLibrary
- Servo https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/Servo
- MPU6050 + i2cDev https://github.com/pkourany/I2CDEV_MPU6050
All of them are under MIT license which allow the end user to edit, copy , merge and sell the software with the only requirement of keeping the license so i decided for my software part to use the MIT license aswell.
Here you can find more info about the MIT license Link
Copyright (c) 2017 Rustici Pietro
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
All the non-software parts in my final project ( CAD files, documentation ecc. ) are under the (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons Attribute so everyone can share, edit and redistribute freely as soon as they give copyrights, mention the changes from the original project and link the license.
More info about the CC BY 4.0 license can be found here Link
Future development ideas
There are a lot of things i would like to keep developing, the more important is to create an accessible on/off switch because, at moment, you have to open the six screws that hold the robot shell together to access the battery/power switch.
Maybe also replace the Bluetooth 2.0 with a BLE so the robot can go on “sleep” mode while it does not receive any command from the controller and save battery.
Replace the 8 x AA battery with a LiPo rechargeable battery.
Integrate the joystick controller i created during networking week to control the robot.
Make it more stable by tuning in a better way the PID algorithm and a little bit faster by creating a gradual acceleration control.