Dimensional Ultralancer: Vulcan Five Progress Update

Just a little update on the progress of Vulcan Five.

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Part of my robot workshop. The rest of it is in the basement.

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Robot assistant Tanpopo posing with Vulcan Five.

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Oscilloscope set up ready to debug.

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11.1V 360mAh lipo. It is a nice size and pretty light too. Cause of it's low capacity, I will have to charge it after every match probably. Thats why I bough two.

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Baby Orangatan size comparison with chassis.

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Mock fitting of battery and control board.

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I made a modification to the inserts so that I can install and remove them easier which makes fixing stuff on the inside easier.

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With the inserts removed here is a picture of the belt and pulley setup.

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The AVR Dragon is what I will be using to program the Baby Orangatan through ISP. Just downloaded and installed AVR Studio and WINAVR. Time to get programming.

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These will be my object detection. Keep checking back for updates :D.

How many IR LEDs and
How many IR LEDs and receivers will you be using? And where on the bot?