Did you ever tried to rotate the robot head and found the movement nervous?
This tip can help to smooth movements out.
Did you ever looked at a robot and … Read more
I have found robotics interresting for some time now, and I have decided to give it a try. I have been making projects with an Arduino before, but never with sensors and motors (I have no idea how to program these). I have been looking at your "Start Here" page, and it looks really interresting. But because I have been making projects before, I think i will use an Arduino in my robots. So I got some questions, that I hope you guys will help me solve.
1: How is the easiest way to start with the Arduino?
Whenever you use delays in your robot code your microcontroller is going to do nothing but wait until the delay is passed.
Where on one hand this is a blessing it … Read more
Hello once again LMR! I recently made a few changes to my robot “Mobile Arduino Experimental Platform” (MAEP), and have written this tutorial on how to create a … Read more
I'll start off admitting that I'm a complete novice at robot building, so pardon me for what is probably stupid questions. I have bought an arduino with the intention of building a robot and have an idea of doing so mainly with servos, and I know that I can probably run them off the arduino without any problems helped by the arduino servo library, but can I just plug them in directly to the arduino or do I need a resistor in between or something? And question 2 How do I make my robot controllable via R/C? How do I put those circuits(?) together?
This is our website containing some simple tutorials showing how to use C#, the arduino and a few other things that might be useful to someone building a robot! There is also a shop (powered by Amazon) and a page dedicated to the build process of our robots :)
Hi LMR! I got the idea to make a little robot, with 4 wheels that van drive around. Ok, what's cool about that... so I decided to add in a camera and a wireless connection to a pc. I'm a total beginner to this BTW, but I'll figure out how to program it. The overall idea is to make a robot I can control from my pc, that transmits It's video signal to my pc so I can se where it is. My question is, which components would he suitable for my project? I was thinking about getting a wi-fi connection to work with my pc, will that work?
Okay, so I've gone out & bought my Arduino clone, had fun* with it, bought a truckload of ATMEGA 48-328's & had fun* with them and would like to now broaden my horizons a little. I'd like to see what's on the other side of the fence & give PIC chips a try. From what I can see, both have their advantages/disadvantages & can excel in some areas where the other may flounder.
This is my first robot. It uses a POP-168 power board (which is based off a arduino ATmega 168). It uses two DC motors for movement, and a parallax standard servo motor with a sharp IR sensor mounted on it for object detection.
Thanks a lot for the support you people showed last time.
I want to make a circuit which has 2 LEDs and a normal on/off switch (at least) and other components as required.
The circuit should function like this-
When i turn the switch on for the 1st time, LED 1 glows but LED 2 remains switched off.
When i turn the switch off for the 1st time, both LED 1 and 2 remain off.
When i turn the switch on for the 2nd time, LED 2 glows but LED 1 remains switched off.
When i turn the switch off for the 2nd time, both LED 1 and 2 remain off.
Please provide me with a circuit diagarm for the same and
I am setting up a basic electronics/robotics lab at my school. I have been trying to figure out what a good soldering iron would be for the classroom or if one of the kits available, which contain other useful tools, are viable. This is a class/club where both the students and teacher (me) are relatively inexperienced. We bought some cheap soldering irons last year but they are already useless and I don't want to make the same mistake twice. So, I guess I'm looking for warnings as much as recommendations.
Hi, I'm beginner of this world. Wanna get some help. Where i can get the materials if don't have any credit card ? Or maybe there's a guide how to build it ? Thanks
i want to know how to create something so i can shoot high speed photography.
an example of what i would like to do is of a water droplet hitting a bowl of water and snapping a picture when the "crown" (part of the water which gets drawn up from the result of disrupting the water bowl".
i was thinking about a laser activated "flash" which fires the flash of the camera after the beam is broken, but it should have a delay so i can fine tune it and get the perfect image.
Hi,
My name is Zuzu, I live in my masters pocket and usually I sleep at day, but at night, when all the lights goes out, I will wake up and I will seek the most … Read more
I'm new. My name's Cam. I've never built a robot or any electronic circuit but for some reason I'm super-confident that I'll be awesome at it.
I have a little bit of scripting/coding experience, I'm hoping at least some of that translates over to robot building. I'll have a heap of help at least to start off with from a friend of mine, he's never built robots either, or really done much in electronics, but he's an engineer ooh wow
I am looking to upgrade my first robot which is built from the LMR Starter Bundle. I to start out I would like to upgrade to 4 motors. Currently I only see the A & B pins for motor control. The motors do not need to be independently controled, I only need to be able to control 2 at a time. Is this doable?
Also, I eventually want to upgrade to bigger motors, would it be easier instead using 4 triacs or relays?
Hello all! In this walkthrough, I'm going to show you the basics of the Arduino and how to blink an LED. I know this has been done many times, but since I'm hoping … Read more
Bit ambitious as a first project, but I have 'some' background in programing.
Right now I am a student at University of Idaho. I am taking C++ and attend the ACM meetings. ACM is a group on campus that does programing challenges and is now dabling in robotics. They recently got an Arduino board, and it is my understanding that it uses C++.
This will be my first robot, except for a semester in high school where I programed a robot to navigate a maze using only a sequence of commands.
Hello, I am new to this site so I hope you won’t mind if I ask a few questions that I am sure are going to sound quite amateurish to most of you.
I am an American living in Berlin working on a collaboration between two art research institutes here.I have been given the task of putting together a proposal for a dynamic moving display. That will be featured next year as part of a conference on kinesthesia.
I am very new to building robots and don't have much knowledge of electronics, apart from the basics many years ago at school.
However, I got an arduino at the weekend and have started doing experiments with it. I've just managed to take apart a cheap RC toy car and get the arduino to make it go backwards and forwards via a L293D motor driver and a very basic program. There are two motors in the car - the other one is a DC one attached to rack and pinion steering - I've not connected this to the other side of the L239D though yet.
So i"m an advanced desktop/web apps programmer and MCTS WinDev so far, and I've done it all completely on my own.
After a few weeks of research now I've realized I might be able to build a simple robot, I've already chosen my shop and products, my ideas are usually quite ambitious.
