This is my first bot....as you can tell. It is an on going learning experience for sure. This is basically V1 as I intend to mount and wire everything in a more permanent fashion. Its one thing to get motors spinning and bumper switches working independantly but combining it all is a much greater feeling of accomplishment. I have the servo and waiting on the Ping to finalize the layout. Thanks to all who provided insight to my coding questions. I'm sure there will be more shortly...
UPDATE****
After taking my Arduino off the bot and using for various other projects I finally finished the functional V1.1 of my bot. One of the motors in the Tamiya gearbox spins faster than the other which I'm hoping will rectify itself once I move to a more permanant solution. I'm using the Adafruit protoshield at the moment but working on the circuit board for a more permanant solution as well as a different chassis. The PING was seeing things that werent there towards the end of the video but I believe I tracked the problem down to my batteries getting low. I am happy to finally have a completed "Start Here" type robot and just the amount that I learned from trial and error was worth the time(and money) spent.
Navigate via Bumper switches
- Actuators / output devices: tamiya dual motor gearbox
- CPU: Arduino Decimila
- Sensors / input devices: Bump Switches
- Target environment: indoor
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/maxbot-v1
