UPDATE: 6 Oct, 2013Ok, I have been too lazy to update this as this was done a month or so ago. I hereby declare this project complete. It is now bigger and better! Below are some photos and a video of the completed matrix and driver board(click any picture for a larger view)-The Matrix-The dr…
Every technology can be understood and recreated by anyone once they are clear with its fundamental operation. One such technology I am going to deal with is the Autonomous vehicle/Robot. Most of the beginners think (as I did when I was a beginner) that only master minded Engineers and Scientists …
First Up... If you want to find out what Wavefront Mapping is all about head over to the Society of Robots Tutorial. It has a great wtite up and its where I first learnt about it. Basic's done, So lets talk about Map size limits.....The Arduino 2560 & 1280 both have 8k of SRAM (where the m…
I've bought a few of the pololu stepper drivers A4988 to populate a ramps1.3 board used in printrbot. Before building the mechanics I soldered together the ramps board and plugged it all together with my arduino mega2560 and the drivers. Having tried to work out the best software combination wit…
October, 11th 2012Well, my prototype remote controller is nearly finished now.Bellow you can see the ON/OFF switch placement (that's for you Hoff).The backside of the board after a hand of nail polish (yeah, I know, yet another archaic method). Also notice the little blue jumper wire that I h…
