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Line following, Driving around free with obstacle avoidance
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This is a first attempt at building a robot. For now it is able to follow a line, and to drive around free with obstacle avoidance. In the near future I will … Read more

New line sensor

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I had some problems with the 36 KHz detector when trying to read it from the picaxe, so I have switched to using 4 infrared photodiodes in a feedback setup with two LM358 dual opamp packages as shown in the following image (for one photodiode only):

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This gives an analog reading and I will use this for linear interpolation between the sensors to determine where the line is relative to the robot center.