General Objectives: The objective of this contest is for a robot to follow a black line on a white background, without losing the line while navigating several turns on a race course. The robot to complete the course in the shortest period of time while accurately tracking the line from start to finish wins. ...
A great series of Arduino video tutorials by Jeremy Blum. The series wlaks you from setting up your Arduino prototyping environment and making a single LED blink, to complex experiments like controlling DC motors, LCDs and GPS tracking….
This is an “instructable” on how to hack a cheap remote controlled toy car and turn it into an Arduino powered autonomous robot vehicle. It requires some soldering, so be prepared to mess around with wires on a tiny PCB and learn to de-solder a chip from a board! Once you master that though, you open endless possibilities for hacking and salvaging components from old “junk” electronics!
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. There is a wealth of resources on their web-site: tutorials, examples, code libraries and a very active community in the forums.
Batteries almost ran out by the time the bot finally made it trough the obstacle course…Still WIP I guess.
..or rather what is left from a perfectly decent remote controlled tank! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ff5dCPZQmjs Comments Comment by Kevin M on 2012-11-14 13:27:13 -0700 Good movement for the tank. Have some questions about fetish’s though… Looks to be a bit of Rubber and Boots to me!
Not really sure why his creator named him “Bad Boy”. There is actually a smiley face painted on the car! Comments Comment by Wagner on 2012-11-18 13:52:25 -0700 He prefers to be called “The Big Boy” to disguise his true personality.
Objectives: Build a robot that is capable of traversing across an obstacle course. The course is configurable to present at least 3 different routes. The Bot has to attempt crossing each of the 3 course setups. The winning Bot will be the one that has completed all 3 courses in the shortest time. ...