This page is just a
brief bio on my robot and things like that. I plan on listing it's
capabilities, it's accomplishments, it's current errors, and a little to do list
of my plans for it. Maybe some other random things like various stats on
my robot.
Capabilities
- Line Following
Accomplishments
- Code downloaded
- Counting LED's
- Motion
- Line Following
Problems
- Not enough torque from wheels
- Microphone input does not work
- Speech synthesis board routed wrong
Things to Do
- Get smaller wheels
- Wait for new gearboxes
- Wait for new circuit boards
- Make robot follow walls
- Get robot to avoid objects in its path
- Make robot talk
- Have robot use light sensors to head to light or dark part of room
- Build robotic arm
Random Stats
- 13 Circuit boards in use on current robot
- 6 sensors operational
- 10 motors purchased
- 12 4-layer boards fabricated
- 28 2-layer boards fabricated
- Over $400 spent
- 866 components soldered on the first set of circuit boards
- 290 resisters soldered on the first set of circuit boards
- 241 pin headers soldered on the first set of circuit boards
- 19 Code files tested as of March 19, 2003
Robot Links
- My Robot Diary
- Robot Builder's Bonanza Book
- Analog Devices ADuC812
- Eagle Layout Editor
- Dallas Maxim Integrated Circuits
- Allegro motor drivers
- Electronic Goldmine surplus electronics
- Advanced Circuits Printed Circuit Boards
- Digikey online store
- Radioshack
- RC Systems RC8650 speech chip
- Molex Connectors
- Keil uVision
- Robot gearboxes