This is our first robot. My 11 year old son and I have been working on it. We started a blog at http://www.ArduinoFun.com to post our progress for the robot and other projects while we learn about the Arduino.
Few more photos:
The Chassis. Boe Bot chassis which we used plexiglass top and then attached the IR sensors and components to.
This is the shield we built to fit ontop the Arduino. It kept everything organized easier.
New wireless color camera added. Sends audio and video back to our tv. Runs off a 9v battery.
We are still tweaking it. We ordered a wireless camera to put on it. Sadly after hearing nothing for 2 weeks, they finally emailed and said it was out of stock and would not be in stock for 4-6 weeks. Bummer.
**Great bot! ** Great robot! And your first one no less! You and your son have certainly been doing your research. Nice to see it is an Arduino, I am learning more about Arduino myself. Thanks for sharing the video and your blog link with us. With a start like this I am looking forward to seeing your future bots…
I love the Arduino. When we were looking around at all the microcontrollers and stuff online it seemed easier to understand. We liked all the shield capabilities. Still have a lot to learn though. Its fun to work on and see the excitment in my son. He has a little web page that he has been working on with his buddies and it made my day to see he had written "Me and my dad are working on a robot…" Seeing how proud he is makes me so happy.
Hopefully this seed we have planted will blossom into something bigger when he is older. I do know that it has made him more interested in math and science, the subjects he had hated the most.
Having your son working with you on it must be a very very nice thing. I wish i also had someone to cooperate with me in my projects!
From the pictures it looks like you are using the wired proto board (https://www.robotshop.com/letsmakerobots/node/4087), is it nice? Also another question: what is the box at the back of the bot: it looks misteriously powerful
the protoboard is by MeasureExplorer, each hole is connected to one another and then you just cut areas on the board to isolate them for what you need. It made building the circut a lot easier for us. That board, we picked up at SparkFun.com.
The box on the back is holding the 9.6v battery pack. My son had taken apart an old RC car, and we used the battery pack from it and it fit into this little box we found on something else. Then we just put a little lid on top and taped it down. The little tube sticking off the back we found at Lowes, it was a piece of PVC for a faucet. We super glued a cable hanger to the box and the PVC pipe snapped right into it. Not sure what those cable clips are called, they have a nail in them that is angled so you can hammer it onto a joist. We sawed off the nail holder so that it would fit onto the battery box.
We added our wireless camera to LARS this evening. You can see it sticking up off the back. It runs off a 9 volt battery and sends audio and video back to the TV. We will have to make a short video to upload later.
I Spent some time messing around with Eagle today at work and managed to design an arduino shield , I uploaded it to BatchPCB to get one made.
im making another arduino robot on a similar principal, im currently trying to figure out how to make the PING sensor sweep continuously and make the bot move proportionaly. would it be possible to take a look at the code?
I really have enjoyed this I really have enjoyed this robot, and the idea of a different platform like Arduino, wich I will need to learn, Good Effort!!!and Excelent Robot!!!
McDuino I can send you the code we used on LARS if you want. Just email me and I reply back with it. I would love to take a look at yours, but I honestly am still learning myself and I just kind of hack and piece and trial and error stuff together.
