My Little Robot

So this is my very first robot build, have been wanting to build something since my little boy was born 2 years ago. felt that the rubbish plastic quad bikes were so over priced for what they were.I've also been inspired by my brother in-laws Raspberry Pi: Mars Rover.John Chinner Mars Rover I am lucky enough to work with-in education, Once I've completed it, I will hopefully be taking it around schools in the Hampshire Area and have them use scratch to program and send of missions around the schools, could be pulling, carrying etc. plus other home jobs towing kids on there bikes, GPS missions (Once I've added my GPS tower)

I have set a budget of about £160, about the price of a ride on kids vehicle (A Good One ).So far I have bought my motors,pillow blocks, wheels, axles and other bits and bobs. I did at first struggled to work out a way of finding some hubs to fit my wheels. I ended up buying the Invacare wheelchair wheels (with hubs) removed the hubs, which was really really hard since they had been added on with lock tight.Once they had been removed, my next challenge was to remove the hubs from the Pneumatic wheels, this was a task, had to hammer them out. I used the drill to made the hole just slightly larger, bought some new bolts from good old screw fix (x10 £1.50, Bargain) and they bolt in lovely.Over the next few days I will be measuring up and drilling my holes to fit my Motors to the metal frame.

Once my build starts to form i will post all of my finding and how I've done/built it all.