BrainBot - Getting Bigger

So, I've been working full time on BrainBot for six weeks now. Things have changed somewhat - the researcher who wants us to build a bunch of these wanted a Core 2 Duo class onboard cpu, so we had to redesign to allow for a mini-itx. As it happens, we can now put a Core 2 Quad onboard, since the board is the same size...

In order to handle that, we needed to add more batteries, so the chassis has gotten quite a bit wider - we can now fit four 12 volt 4.2 amp-hour NiMh battery packs inside the chassis, two on each side of the motherboard.

We upgraded the chassis panels to be 1/4" Delrin, and the standoffs between them are 49mm long, in aluminum.

The motors are 12 volt 200 RPM gearmotors, with 100-tick encoders, which feed into a pair of LSI LS7366R 32-bit SPI quadrature encoder counter chips.

Its pretty funny when your robot has more onboard processing power than your development laptop...