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General Misc => Robot Videos => Topic started by: briancrafton on December 01, 2011, 08:35:33 AM

Title: Salt Dropping, Line Following Robot???
Post by: briancrafton on December 01, 2011, 08:35:33 AM

For my project this year i wanted to make a line follower, but i needed to give it a real life application. So i decided to have it drop salt but i have no idea how to do it... I looked at a line marker that drops chalk for a baseball field, but i need a mechanism that can drop salt using a servo motor. Any Ideas???
Line Following Bot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGDLuLGyR_E#ws) ---> Thats my robot, check it out!

Title: Re: Salt Dropping, Line Following Robot???
Post by: Redcap on December 03, 2011, 07:44:30 PM

Perhaps something like...
(excuse my paintbush skills)
(http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k598/Blue-LED/saltdropper.png)

So, basically the holder stores the salt, and the servo horn has a hole (or holes) in it that pass under a hole in the salt holder, allowing the salt to pour out.

Edit: Oh, I should add, nice work on the robot, by the way :D