The Birth of the Biotronics

The Biotronics Project was conceptualized by Joey Lawsin in 1988 with a simple basic objective in mind: to design and create robots that look alive or with life. These robots are collectively named Biotronics. They are sometimes called the Silver Species. This new group of living organisms can see, smell, taste, hear, feel, think, breed, fly, swim, create, and are self-conscious. They die too. Several new smart robotic systems such as Neurotronics, Homotronics, Wise Sensors, and  Inscription were invented and developed by Lawsin too to meet all the demands of information materialization, sensoric perception and associative consciousness.

The project was first shaped using the Lawsin Linkage, a double cantilever truss system with connecting elements (links) that form triangular frames. It is a structural mechanism that was developed to simulate the walking cadence of biotronics animals from where the links fulfill the following requirements:

1. It must carry out a walking cadence fluidly like an actual living animal's gait.
2. It can conquer any type of terrain obstacles from carpet floors to seabeds.
3. It can move in different directions with various range of actuated motion or R.O.A.M.
4. Its structure elements must be guided by nature's mathematics like geometry.
5. It can be integrated with the arduino platform for micro-consciousness programming.

Then, the project was put together by combining the various stages of the process:
Phase 1: The Lawsin Linkage
Phase 2: The Led Indicator Sketch
Phase 3: The MicroServo Sketch
Phase 4: The Ultrasonic Sensor Sketch
Phase 5: The Piezo Speaker Sketch
Phase 6: The Stepper Motor Sketch
Phase 7: The Biotronic LegoWalker Sketch

Finally, even without a dual H-bridge motor driver, the proof of concept was delivered into actual physical reality using the Arduino microcontroller as the "brain"(neurotronics) and lego's gears and beams as the "body" (homotronics).

The Proof of Concept :  

Stage 1: The Lawsin Linkage Structure:

 

Stage 2: The Homotronics Side:

Stage 3: The Neurotronics Side :

Stage 4: The Mathematics:

Stage 5: The Inverse Matrix and Inscription :

Stage 6: The Prototype:

Stage 7: The First Biotronics: