MaxBot V1

Posted on 29/01/2009 by kevin_c7500
Modified on: 13/09/2018
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This is my first bot....as you can tell.  It is an on going learning experience for sure.  This is basically V1 as I intend to mount and wire everything in a more permanent fashion.  Its one thing to get motors spinning and bumper switches working independantly but combining it all is a much greater feeling of accomplishment.  I have the servo and waiting on the Ping to finalize the layout.    Thanks to all who provided insight to my coding questions.  I'm sure there will be more shortly...  UPDATE**** After ...


MaxBot V1

This is my first bot....as you can tell.  It is an on going learning experience for sure.  This is basically V1 as I intend to mount and wire everything in a more permanent fashion.  Its one thing to get motors spinning and bumper switches working independantly but combining it all is a much greater feeling of accomplishment.  I have the servo and waiting on the Ping to finalize the layout.    Thanks to all who provided insight to my coding questions.  I'm sure there will be more shortly...

 UPDATE****

After taking my Arduino off the bot and using for various other projects I finally finished the functional V1.1 of my bot.  One of the motors in the Tamiya gearbox spins faster than the other which I'm hoping will rectify itself once I move to a more permanant solution.  I'm using the Adafruit protoshield at the moment but working on the circuit board for a more permanant solution as well as a different chassis.  The PING was seeing things that werent there towards the end of the video but I believe I tracked the problem down to my batteries getting low.  I am happy to finally have a completed "Start Here" type robot and just the amount that I learned from trial and error was worth the time(and money) spent.

Navigate via Bumper switches

  • Actuators / output devices: tamiya dual motor gearbox
  • CPU: Arduino Decimila
  • Sensors / input devices: Bump Switches
  • Target environment: indoor
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