How do you modify a nervous net so that you can make a 2 motor, 4 legged creature turn if the bump sensor contacts something?
You’ll find that the two motor variation is a great introduction to MicroCore building, and leg-geometry tuning. It is not the most agile design, though. They tend initially to be inclined to turn one way or the other, and you can tune the design to stabilize it. Reverse is no problem, but choosing a turn left / turn right might be best left for a subsequent design. On the other hand, Andrew Miller has a robot with an unusual and effective method of turning: the front motor can spin right around. So when it runs in to something, a timer (Nv) keeps the front motor spinning in one direction for several revolutions. The robot turns almost “on a dime.” Q: Could you make a solar powered walking robot phototropic by adding some photoresistors or small solar cells to the front of the robot, and then connecting them to the MicroCore somehow? How does that affect the feedback from the motors to the MicroCore? A: Yes, but one has their choice of two basic principles: resistive and photovoltaic.
