this is a simply sicilian robot what: Navigate around via infrared and solar panels, lighting with lamp when it's dark, send image from motorized wireless camera, charge battery from solar panel.It's autonomou or, if you want, controlled by remote control wired. Solar panel provides just 6V and 50mA. Banaly, if you want to charge four 1.2V and 500mAh batteries (for example AA Ni-MH) it takes 10hours to finish complitely the re-charge.
It uses:
1 Sharp InfraRed Sensor
3 PIC: 2x 12F675 and 1x 16F84 microcontroller Microchip
2 IC L293D
1 tamiya dual motor gearbox
1 pin-hole camera (from china :))
1 servomotor for camera
1 solar cell (very very small) to "read" the amount of light and possibly turn on one lamp
2 front red leds
Navigate around and...
Actuators / output devices: tamiya dual motor gearbox
Control method: autonomou or controlled by remote control wired
CPU: PIC12F675, PIC16F84
Power source: 4xAA Ni-MH
Programming language: PIC RISC assembler
Sensors / input devices: 1 Sharp InfraRed Sensor
Target environment: indoor-outdoor (with good weather :)
OK please don’t delete this OK please don’t delete this one this time. I would really like some more information on this bot. I like the whole “charge from a solar panel” idea and would like to know what kind of battery you are using and how you manage to achieve enough amperage to charge it with just one solar panel. Also, where’d you get that solar panel?
ok, listen me, I made this robot 4 years ago, then I don’t remember very good specification about all comoponents, hovewer, I do NOT manage the charge, just it charges four 1,2V rechargeable batteries. This panel provides just 6V and 50mA.Banaly, if you want to charge four 1.2V and 500mAh batteries, it takes 10hours to finish complitely the re-charge.
I have a couple of the 3 I have a couple of the 3 volt (half width) versions of these that I bought at RadioShack about 6 years ago, but they dont seem to have them on their website now.
