The Adafruit Motor Shield arrived in the mail last week and this week I built it. The shield allows one to control more than one motor at a time using h-bridges. This shield can allow up to 4 DC motors … Continue reading →
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lofi hardware, delivered
A few weeks back, I wrote about my attempt to translate a low-fidelity circuit board design into something that could be run through a laser cutter. Today, Ponoko delivered the results: You can click through to a large, high resolution image. In a word, it came out beautifully. I do work surrounding the use of [...]
Styrofoam Environment
This week I completed my arena that I will use to test our robot. First, I was going to set up the arena in the hall of our CS department, but have it be collapsable so I could put it … Continue reading →
In Which I Show I’m Not An Artist
RC car robots are fine and all but we finally put together our idea for the final product. We decided to keep it pretty simple. Such as, rather than try to build our own h-bridges, we realized that an Arduino … Continue reading →
semester two begins
And so we begin. Again. Last semester, we didn’t know each-other, and were unsure as to where we would go. Our explorations took us through some basic electronics, with the goal of controlling motors and managing sensors. We did well, … Continue reading →
Pink Everywhere!
Before school let out for the winter break, Molly and I tried to make our robots move in more than one direction using an H-bridge. It appears that the H-bridges we have do not work very well for the Arduino … Continue reading →
Materials bought.
I went to the Valu Home Center and bought many sheets of styrofoam board in order to build the environment. I also bought a dowel rod to make furniture. I got white tape to mark where the doorways are in … Continue reading →
Yay for Robots Moving!
I finally got all the bugs worked out of my R/C car chassis setup and it moves! I played around a little bit with the Plumbing code, but it’s still not working when the button is pressed. I received a … Continue reading →
Arduino Uno Support!!!
After having had an Arduino Uno sitting on my desk happily accepting
programs from my development build of the Transterpreter, I thought it was
finally time to get the binaries with Arduino Uno released into the wild.
Knight Rider on
the Arduino U…
Plumbing Lessons
Earlier this week I was able to get a lesson in the Plumbing language from Dr. Jadud. I had been having difficulties in translating my C program for my light sensitive RC car into a Plumbing program. I learned much … Continue reading →