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Multipurpose Robot: XRB3

mikef — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:28:16 -0500

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What does it do?

Mapping, very low-level vision things

XRB3 is powered by an AVR ATMEGA324P micro controller on a custom board that I made. Although he is fully autonomous, he is using an XBEE module to communicate with my PC for debugging (and eventually with other robots). Onboard sensory includes: 3 Sharp IR sensors (for wall following and obstacle detection), an SRF-05 sonar sensor and AVRcam. The sonar, a gp2d12, and the camera are mounted in a 2-axis head.

Cost to build

$400,00

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Time to build

100 hours

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Crum

Big Face — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:04:56 -0400

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What does it do?

Navigates, draws maps

Update: The mapping program ive written is avaliable on my website www.bigfacerobotics.com if anyone is interested in what it looks like. There is also a sample map to download that can be loaded into the program. Its still a work in progress and as such has some bugs, for example if you open another window over the top of it or click anywhere other than the program window the map will disappear and will have to be loaded again. I may at some point add the functionality so that the user can enter the details of the robot, such as number of sensors and their positions so that

Cost to build

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Time to build

36 hours

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Igor, My first robot

buhatkj — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:43:04 -0400

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What does it do?

navigate around with IR and avoid stuff

This is igor, my first robot. His brains are a Make controller, a SAM7-based microcontroller which I gotta say was NOT the cheapest but for the most part is a joy to program. The chassis is an octobot chassis from budget robotics, with an extra deck which is not attached in the photo..

Anyway, I just put him mostly together tonight, and wrote a real quick app to test the IR rangefinders. I'm not really sure what his mission in life should be yet, but for now I'm just gonna try to make him able to roam around and avoid stuff.

Cost to build

$250,00

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Time to build

20 hours