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IRIS System - update 2

An-Tech's picture

 I've worked on this alot latley. It's an improved version of my text editor. Basically, it was made to test the keyboard input and TV output for the propeller, but ended up being alot more work than it was worth. In the end, I just realized that I only needed to use the ending string (13, 10). Only some minor problems remain: no tv objects will work unless the prop. is plugged into the computer and no spaces show up when using the read method. Here's the code:

IRIS System - update 1

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Horay! I just got my GG propeller board USB:

 

 And, for the record, I did blink some LED's (video 1). Parts shipment 1 of 2 has also arrived:

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Okay this is just a concept at this point, but If it generates enough interest i'll begin finishing the design. I want to take the Sanguino, Arduinos Middle child … Read more

The IRIS System

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     The IRIS System will basically have three goals:

This is my attempt to build a very small and light but offroad vehicle. The accelerometer acts as a tilt sensor. A bandwidth of 1Hz has been set with according … Read more

Mini battery - need advice

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I'm currently working on a small robot with 2 hacked miniservos, attiny45 and some photoresistors. I want the robot to be really small (it's about 6x5cm, 3-4cm tall) so am looking for a power source, that would be both small and efficient. I was thinking about button batteries but it turns out that they can only supply 0.1mA of continous drain.

Thanks for any advice.

Making parts

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I spent Thursday night making hubs for new robots.  Enjoy the video.

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Canadian National Robotic Games 2010

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Hello all,

I had a great time in Toronto for this years Robot games.  I managed to get 2nd place in the masters mini sumo competition with Blaster shark.  I made a new robot called Driller shark which I will post shortly in the robot section.  It didn't do that well, but all in all I had fun.  Here are the pictures.

Ordinary lunch kit?

Mini Sumo Bot Parts!

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Intro

I decided to make a mini sumo robot a few weeks ago instead of doing an obstacle avoider. Turns out that once you think about it, mini sumo bots and obstacle avoiders are pretty much the same! The only changes I would need to make would be to the code. Great! Sumos can also double as line followers. So in short, they're pretty versatile. Here is an image of most of the parts that will go into this sucker. 

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Arduino voltage regulator and other questions.

brunoxyz's picture

 Hello, I have a few questions I hope somebody or several people can answer :)

 

Cheap mini wireless cameras

Aniss1001's picture

I was playing around with some code for machine vision (object/facial/color/motion-detection) a long time ago, and I'm thinking to put a camera on a robot sooner or later and see where that'll take me.

So I was looking for cheap wireless cameras and I was astonished to find these:

900MHz Mini Wireless Color Camera w/Built-in Microphone - $25.50

This mini stepper motor from the Electronic Goldmine was ridiculously cheap. However, it is wired strangely for a stepper motor, so I've collected some more info on … Read more

A mini relay like chip?

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Here is the setup, I need a picaxe to "push" 2 buttons when it receives a high digital input. 
I will be using a picaxe08M and will have 2 digital inputs(2 buttons) and to digital outputs to triger the relay.
 
I need somethink like a relay but much smaller, about the same size a the picaxe chip.
 
It only need to handle 5V.
 
Anybody know of something that would do the job ? 

Miniature Swarm Bots - Prototype

Ajster's picture
Cool, miniature bots. These are prototypes, but they show how they want them to be eventually.
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Mini Biped

Nick's picture

I've been wanting to see something like this for a long time, and have never been able to make it.

A couple of people probably know games like WarHammer.

For those who dont, WarHammer is a stratagy game played with mini figurines, out of a Fantastic/Midivel times. Those figurines are generaly abaut an inch (about 2.5 cm) high, unless somekind of Troll or something.

Very cheap but fun little beginners robot. It think' it has a brains within a Picaxe 8
Using a
Edit: Check out this nice clone: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/8386 From building big, nasty, with large shovel, 2 cores, multiple sensors, soundsystem etc, I got … Read more