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Title: CMU Mobot Race 2009
Post by: wil.hamilton on July 26, 2009, 08:06:26 PM

Here is a video of my first run at the 2009 Mobot (Mobile Robot) Race at Carnegie Mellon.  My team placed second.

[youtube]iPDxCWHuHyE[/youtube]

Just wanted to share the video.

Title: Re: CMU Mobot Race 2009
Post by: ukesh on July 27, 2009, 10:47:42 AM

cool man:)
were you using motors or servos for the wheels? and what were the sensors? Just curious:)

Title: Re: CMU Mobot Race 2009
Post by: SmAsH on July 27, 2009, 02:41:11 PM

haha, nice job on the little guy!
im also curious of the sensors used...

Title: Re: CMU Mobot Race 2009
Post by: wil.hamilton on July 27, 2009, 07:54:22 PM

locomotion was provided by 4 GM8 motors
for sensors i used an array of IR emitter/detectors

Title: Re: CMU Mobot Race 2009
Post by: ericthered on July 29, 2009, 09:23:17 PM

Nice robot. its small turning radius was genius. Might I ask what microcontroller you used?

Title: Re: CMU Mobot Race 2009
Post by: wil.hamilton on July 30, 2009, 09:50:27 AM

i used the arduino deicimilla, i really like the arduino boards, they're easy to use.

Title: Re: CMU Mobot Race 2009
Post by: ericthered on July 30, 2009, 12:42:58 PM

Ah I keep hearing good things about that board. Right now I use the parallax basic stamp as that was what my high school taught me to use. But I may try that board for college in the fall

Title: Re: CMU Mobot Race 2009
Post by: wil.hamilton on July 30, 2009, 01:46:05 PM

i highly recommend it.  it's just an all around great board, decent number of IO, and plenty fast.  not to mention the amount of documentation/support there is for it

Title: Re: CMU Mobot Race 2009
Post by: gaurav.p on August 02, 2009, 03:36:48 AM

gr8 piece of work