Hey there, this is the first robot Ive ever made... and not the sturdiest of machines.... or prettiest.
Just a rover. My first Arduino project was a joystick operated 3DOF arm, this seemed like the next step and, opposed to the arm which I used other peoples code and just stuck the pieces together, this code is mostly mine... as clunky as it is. I started looking into building robots as a way to better learn coding as I’ve only really stared this year for the day job… and I always wanted to lead an army of killer robots.
It took a short time to build... but several days to work out the code for my novice abilities. I thinks its at a level that this prototype works, not brilliantly but a good start. Next I might tweak the code (so it doesn’t run into so many things) and build a proper enclosure (so it doesn’t fall to pieces when it does run into things)... then Im moving onto something that can fly:)
Excuse the poor quality of the video
Navigate around via Infra Red
- Actuators / output devices: 2 servos, Tamiya gears
- Control method: Infra Red
- CPU: Arduino
- Power source: 9v battery powering the arduino and 3 AA's for the motors
- Programming language: Arduino
- Sensors / input devices: Sharp IR
- Target environment: indoor
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/ugly-bot
