Pal, an obedient autonomous truck

Hey, a home for my robot, Pal.

(this is blog format so the beginning of the experiment is on the 3rd page from here)

I'm tired of carrying my electric RC truck around from hill to hill while working it up in the dirt. just seems kinda of humiliating to both of us, ya know?

Also, I think one of the best/simplest ways to instill a sense of awareness in a robot is for it to know where you are. towards that goal i''m adding some ultrasonics and some brains to it so it will follow it's control unit around like an obediant doggy. 

The latest posts appear after this one, look down at the bottom for the Block Diagrams early discussion.

I'm using ultrasonics mounted on the truck and the handheld transmitter to act as a beacon so the truck knows where the master is... maybe can also make it race in circles around a central fixed beacon 

michael