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Picaxe basic

basic obstacle avoidance, two LEDs blinking and otherwise,
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This robot may seem overly simple to most of the people on this site, but my friend and I have absolutely no experience with electronics or computer programming. We … Read more
The China Syndrome : It was a dull night on the internet , so i was searching Ebay for cheap parts and found lots of mini servos for around $4 + or - .50c ,some  … Read more
This is a very simple robot using only Picaxe-08M. I can be controlled throught computer or it can walk alone. The bateries are only weight for ballance, just to … Read more
I had to build a robot just to test a board... I wanted a nice, simple 08m board to play with so I made one! It is not too shabby, if I do say so myself and quite … Read more
Follows objects,roams around and makes alot of funny noises
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Got this as a kit however it suffered a bit in the mail, bought the picaxe chip seperate and had to repair a few of the traces going to the right rear corner. … Read more
Update January 25th, 2012   It has been a while since my last update but a lot has been done to the Rover.  Some of the big achievements include some basic … Read more
Hi, This is second version of my robot Primo. It is Lighter, Faster, Smaller and nicer (I think :D ). It is controlled by Picaxe-08M. I used one IR sensor connected … Read more
This is humphrey the tempremental robot. he is my variation of the start here robot (why do i refere to it as he) basicly the sme but with tracks and an ausome … Read more
Rolls around looking for things to drum on. A copy of the ever popular YDM, as published in MAKE magazine
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Hi there this is my new play thing > PicAxe 08m2 < and i was just trying to learn how the thing works , you know servo ADC ,LED, Tone , come up with a cool … Read more
Hi i'm new and this is my first robot :) COMPONENT;  AXE023 with Picaxe 08m2(08m2 is more powerful of 08) QRB1134(ir sensor photo reflector) SENSOR … Read more
can drum and wander around
I have managed to get every thing except the neck motor to play ball. it took a bit of trial and error to find the correct wiring connections as my board layout is … Read more
    Pictures in High res. now available on: https://picasaweb.google.com/117478617231202648212/Primo?authkey=Gv1sRgCLy4gIfUuZSIrwE The Code is on English now … Read more
Takes the mouse pointer to the position where we point depending on the distance given by the two SRF05
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Hello everybody !!! :) The main aim of this project is to convert a normal computer monitor into a touch screen monitor.. For this I use 2 SRF005 ultrasonic range … Read more
This is a current work in progress that is waiting for a few parts.    The goal for this project was to make a robot that could go after people with an airsoft … Read more
Walks forward, backward, spins, blinks.
8/5/11 Update: Everyone should build one of these.  This was my first 'remove the PICAXE' of the dev board project.  Good fun! Read more
I got the SHR because I wanted to turn it into a cat toy. It works; just ask the cats... The CatScan Robot sits patiently waiting for one of our cats (Zena or … Read more
This is my 1st robot, i opted to go for the start here but change the Sharp for parralax ping))) ultrasonic. Scraped the code from various sorces (none of it is … Read more
   This is my Tic-Tac-Toe playing robot controlled by a Picaxe 08M . It plays a perfect game as long as it goes first and it always goes first . It is a work in … Read more
Phase one: Line Follower complete. Right now it is "learning" how to avoid obstacles the contact-free version.
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INTRO This project -christened Deacon- is the next step in evolution from Nigel, who was abandoned last year. June 9th, 2011 Read more
Navigate around via sharp IR
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This is my first robot...a simple SHR. I connected a 7 segments LED mounted on a small breadboard. the LED display "G" when its going forward and "S" when it stops … Read more
***Update: Fixed some spelling*** ***Update: Video added***   Read more
To start, I'd like to say this is my first robot, but, since I had electronic- experience, and so many people have done the SHR, and I had a good idea, B.I.L. was … Read more
Navigate Around via Infrared
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This is my first Robot and it gve me a great start. Thanks fritsl for giving such a start. Its quite Easy, but living in India, I  faced some Problems. The first … Read more
 This is the robot I built to solve the Towers of Hanoi puzzle . It uses three rc servos and a Picaxe 08M . This is the first time I've used the picaxe  but I … Read more
walk around and avoid obsticles with 8 servos and a sharp IR (impress friends!)
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this is the very begining of my quadruped it uses a picaxe 28x1 and will sponser up to two servos per leg (2dof) so far the black box is just the "control station" … Read more
AVOIDS OBSTACLES
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I would like to thank Frits Lyneborg for the idea and inspiration, so here it is!   Read more
  Done. That was great. Nice kit. A few hiccups, but overall it was done pretty quickly and painlessly.  <!--break--> A few problems I stumbled across on … Read more
  This robot was built for my google science fair entry.  The goal behind this project was to see if an inexpensive robot could trigger anti personnel mines.  … Read more