to mark as completed Eperimental Arduino Robot Platform
Improvements i intend to make:
- Experiment with a veriety of different sensors.
- make an improved chassis and add an enclosure.
- Replace the continuous rotation servos with propper motors for better speed because its pretty slow, and now i have a little expirience i reacon i can code for it now.
- Give it tracks (tracks are cool :P).
- create more areas for experimenting.
UPDATE*
i just purchased this robot chassis http://photos.tradeholding.com/attach/hash246/94198/rp5_chassis__dagu_robot_.jpg
looks pretty nicely constructed, and it has tracks YEY! it containes 2x 9v motors so i'll need to buy a motor controller, so far i think this is my best choice
http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=46&products_id=227
it seems to be widely used with arduino and comes in a neat little package. if anyone else has sugestions for other motor controlers please shout. i'd opt for simplicity to progran rather than less I/O pins used.
Navigate around via IR sensors.
- Actuators / output devices: 2 continuous rotation servos, servo.
- Control method: autonomous
- CPU: Arduino
- Operating system: Windows vista
- Power source: 4 AA batteries, 9v battery
- Programming language: Arduino Processing
- Sensors / input devices: Sharp IR, (future additions- sound sensors, ultrasonic)
- Target environment: indoor