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My first robot. Avoidance robot based on (and inspired by) the Start Here bot.

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Hi All, I wanted to share my first Robot with you. It's based on the Start Here robot. The range sensor is an SRF005. It has a Tamiya twin motor gearbox driven by the L239D motor driver chip on a 28X1 project board. When I first tried the robot I found that it would get stuck in corners a lot so I added some of my own code so that if both the left and right hand distance is less than the danger level, the robot reverses and spins around. I then added an LED that comes on whilst the robot is "thinking". ...

My first robot. Avoidance robot based on (and inspired by) the Start Here bot.
My first robot. Avoidance robot based on (and inspired by) the Start Here bot.

My first robot. Avoidance robot based on (and inspired by) the Start Here bot.

Hi All,

I wanted to share my first Robot with you. It's based on the Start Here robot. The range sensor is an SRF005. It has a Tamiya twin motor gearbox driven by the L239D motor driver chip on a 28X1 project board.

When I first tried the robot I found that it would get stuck in corners a lot so I added some of my own code so that if both the left and right hand distance is less than the danger level, the robot reverses and spins around. I then added an LED that comes on whilst the robot is "thinking". My plan is to now build a proper body to tidy things up and make it look nice now that I am happy with the code.

All comments good and bad are welcome.

Thanks for looking,

Paul :)

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My first robot. Avoidance robot based on (and inspired by) the Start Here bot.

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