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Herpe is a curious-yet-skittish-puppy-bot. What he's supposed to do is seek you out and drive up to you, but if he gets too close, he backs away in fear. In reality, his motor is too fast and his CPU (a Parallax Basic Stamp 2) is too slow, so he doesn't react fast enough to realize he's getting close to you until he's bumped into you. He also has trouble going in a straight line. After failing to solve the problem with code tweaks, I tried adding a 2-axis accelerometer to the board to let him detect ...


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