Arduino Uno – 42 Bots

Programming ATtiny84 / ATTiny44 with Arduino Uno

Stan — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 07:27:23 +0000

My order of ATTiny84 chips from Mouser arrived yesterday, so it is time to load the Arduino Blink example sketch onto it. I made a small line follower using the ATTiny85 a while back, and quite liked the idea of …

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How to connect an Arduino Uno to an Android phone via Bluetooth

Stan — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:00:46 +0000

The purpose of this tutorial is to cover the basics of setting up a connection between Arduino Uno and an Android phone via Bluetooth. Smart phones pack a ton of cool features (camera, accelerators, speakers, microphone, a nice screen to show …

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How to program ATTiny85 with Arduino Uno (part 2)

Stan — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 01:21:28 +0000

This is the second part of the tutorial on how to program an AVR ATTiny85 chip with Arduino Uno. All the hard work has already been covered in Part 1, so make sure that you have completed the steps in …

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How to program ATTiny85 with Arduino Uno (part 1)

Stan — Sun, 30 Jun 2013 06:41:44 +0000

UPDATE, November, 2015: The article below was written for Arduino IDE versions, prior to 1.6.4. If you are currently using Arduino IDE 1.6.4, or later, follow the instructions in blog post instead. This tutorial is based on the steps I …

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Line Following Competition Videos

Stan — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:28:05 +0000

We held our first line following competition last week. We knew ahead of time that right angle turns may cause some issues, so we set up a few to see what happens. We did have some challenges, like you can …

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ATTiny Line Follower

Stan — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:29:22 +0000

Continuing to mess around with the ATTiny85 IC… I ported the code from my Arduino Uno line following robot to the ATTiny. Some changes were necessary to make it work: The ATTiny has only 3 analog pins, so the sensor …

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Project 2: Arduino Line following test 3

Stan — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:31 +0000

Test #3 of my Arduino Uno controlled line following bot for the upcoming competition. This test was focused on checking how the bot handles 90 degree turns with sharp corners, line intersections and line breaks. The robot uses 6 TCRT5000 …

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Project 2: Line following bot – Tests 1&2

Stan — Sun, 05 May 2013 05:30:38 +0000

This is a very basic line following robot using 4 IR led sensor receiver pairs in a line, continuous rotation servos and Arduino Uno. The wheels are made from beer coasters and I was planning to add a wheel encoder using another …

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