I thought I should make a "Start Here" robot, so I did!
When I built the control board, I included an EEPROM, IR remote, 2 trimmer pots and wired the motor driver to the PWM outputs so I should have quite a bit of room in terms of code-play. To be honest, I have no idea what I am going to have it do, but again, all options are open with what I included on the board. For now, just a simple slide/spin code to drive around.
Caster wheel You mentioned in the video that you got the third wheel from a model airplane store. Did you build the caster for it so it could move freely, or did it come like that? I’m looking for a simple third wheel like that for my bot.
Nope, I bought the wire (called piano wire) the collets and the brass tube all seperatly. The copper is a little scrap I had and I simply bent it in my vise and drilled a couple holes. After that I just scuffed it up with a little scotch-brite and soldered it with my gas-powered iron to the brass tube. --It works great! almost no friction.
This is not to say you can’t buy ready-made tail wheels and brackets, it’s just that the shop only had big ones.
Hey Chris, love the bot (a little after the fact, i know),
How did you get the IR remote to work? I remember reading in one of your comments somewhere that you used the RadioShack IR module. Did you use the circuit shown in the manual?
Code I think the code for this bot is pretty good, it knows exactly how much it needs to turn, perfect example at 2:05. Does it use a "if object detected to left turn to the right until no object detected" type of code or a more complicated program where it actually calculates how much it needs to turn and does so in advance?
What is actually in the project box for your robot?I know[there are] encoders which you can buythem at pololu.com (Las Vegas) and the GM3’s too. But what else [is there inside]?
text speak is annoying on a text speak is annoying on a website where people are sharing technical knowledge. You will learn quickly that text speak is only used in emails to friends and instant messaging friends. You dont use it anywhere that is educational or professional.
That is the only book that I That is the only book that I had read for pleasure in the last 6 years (aside from electronics books). VERY good book and a lot of it is coming true in one way or another.
Why should you delete your Why should you delete your account? "I might as well delete my account then." looks like proper english to me, so you have proven you CAN do it if you take the effort to try. That`s all people are asking for.
People are just trying to help point out that text speak is not for educational or professional settings. If you do that at work or for a class you will not do well. I have seen students turn in HOMEWORK that was written in text speak. That isn’t appropriate for that setting. It isn’t best for this setting either. We have a lot of people who don’t speak English as primary language and trying to decifer abbrevitions and text speak makes it hard on them.
We wouldn’t be able to read it if they wrote it in their language and used abbreviations so why should we?
