{"id":1927,"date":"2016-09-15T12:03:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tudsc\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2019-01-14T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:56:17","slug":"disco-the-robot-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tudsc\/2016\/09\/15\/disco-the-robot-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Disco, The Robot Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Emily Logan<\/p>\n

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\"Introducing<\/a>I would like everyone to meet Disco, the newest member of the Digital Scholarship Center community! No cats allowed…<\/p>\n

Disco is an Arduino Mega 2560 powered robot dog. complete with 12 servo motors – 3 per leg, 2 Lithium Ion batteries, 2 circuit boards and a lot of jumper cables. This endearing bionic dog has just learned how to walk, but that is just the beginning of what this pup will be able to do.\u00a0Disco is currently being operated on to get a body upgrade complete with a wagging tail, an on\/off switch, a voice control system that will bark at students, an ultrasonic sensor SRF04 that detects the distance between Disco and other objects and a fully enclosed body. Here is a little bit of how Disco was born.<\/p>\n

Several months ago,\u00a0@letsshall<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Liz Rodrigues)\u00a0conceived of the idea to have a robotic dog greet people as they walked into the DSC and\u00a0@ECornuet<\/span>\u00a0thought “Hey! lets collaborate!”<\/p>\n

We did a little googling and found that there are many versions of robot dogs all across the internet, but we decided on using directions from a project book called Arduino By Example by\u00a0Adith Jagadish Boloor. I have since innovated and deviated slightly from the project book. All of the code is open source and accessed through Packt Publidhing if you have a Temple University account.<\/p>\n

Here are Disco’s “body parts”:<\/p>\n