I have designed a Propeller based robot control board, it can control up to 8 servos at once, and has 8 digital sensors/multipurpose I/O. analog sensors will require some sort of A/D conversion. The board is being sold as a kit at GadgetGangster. if you have never heard of it, look it up…
Normally, one would choose a standard microcontroller for robotics, but in some cases, one chip isn’t enough. how 'bout 8? with the servo object using 1 processor, you still have 7 left! you can read sensors and control servos, read a PS2 controller (i think there’s already code out there for that), and output the the LCD and still have a few processors left over.
Hi Brandon, This looks nice. I have also played around with using the propeller. Earlier I was going to use it on my propeller, but currently still having fun with the propeller.
Yes, it is very fun. I was also able to quickly learn the SPIN language. very easy to learn. although I am still getting used to the assembly language because I have never used it before.
Sooner or later I actually plan to use the PRM in a robot…when I actually get around to building one.
