Line-avoiding robot

[Radiken]

Check out my new toy!
It was made form the mark III sumo board.
It uses 2 servos with differential drive and 3 IR detectors.

[youtube=425,350]1ymmmgDF-N0[/youtube]

[Radiken]

oops...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ymmmgDF-N0

there...

[Brandon121233]

poor thing, your keeping it cramped up in a little virtual cage, give it some leg room!

edit: on a more seroius note- good job it looks great, and I like how you used 3 sensors to make the robot more effective at determining which way to go, and giving it more choices to better optimize its space. Good thinking

[Admin]

You should name it 'Mime (trapped in an invisible box)'



ps - for the youtube links, just put the random letters '1ymmmgDF-N0' in the brackets, it wont work if you put the entire link in it

[Radiken]

Oh, by the way Admin, this uses the chopstick idea quoted in the $50 robot tutorial to mount the servos...

[Admin]

sweet! got pics of it? can I include them in the tutorial (with credit to you)?

[Radiken]

Sure, I'll send some over to you through e-mail.

[Radiken]

My e-mail isn't working, so I just post them here:












What I did was cut some chopsticks down to about 6 inches, and stuck them through the screw mounts on the side and taped it up. After that, there was enough room to put a piece of cardboard in between, put some Velcro on that, and put a 9 v. on it.

[Admin]

Ok I added your pics and quoted you on it

http://www.societyofrobots.com/step_by_step_robot_step2.shtml
(its somewhere in the very middle of the page)