This was my first robot I ever built.
It was CNC cut from an old stop sign by a friend. It was very simple with only a Atmel Mega8, a 293 motorcontroller, and a sonar sensor board that was suppose to see movement and chase it. I did get it to run, but I never could get the sonar board to work right. So after it sat for a few years I gave it to a friend who's now got it running using a Pic and some Sharp distance sensors. I also never got video of it driving, but I keep its pictures online to hopefully inspire others.
LMR and Start Here robots didn't exist back then.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/stopbot-this-was-my-first-robot-project
It was from a door alarm, so
It was from a door alarm, so technically it did both, distance/proximity.
I wanted to make a cat chaser so the robot would turn a little, scan, then turn a little, scan, to follow any movement detected.
Basically I was wrong all the way around for this plan to work.
My sensor choice was completely wrong for what I was trying to do.
The chassis wouldn’t have been fast enough if the sensor board would have worked, etc.
I learned a lot through that failure.
Nice blog!Its cool to see
Nice blog!
Its cool to see evolution in progress.
Pretty soon you’ll be building your own autonomous Mars rover!
Only it will be better as it won’t cost the finances of a small country.
CNC’ed from a stop sign
CNC’ed from a stop sign that’s cool, not going to ask were the stop sign came from.
Yeah someone might have made a late night trip out to the country and found a shiny red and white victim standing there all alone just asking for it!!! -LOL
But I don’t know who would do such a teenage prank just to make his first robot…
