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The first aim for building this robot was to go to Dreamline International Design Olympiad in Ankara, Turkey, in order to show the world (and ourself) that is a nice idea.
Even we had a few problems (so we needed also cable power input beside the batteries), everything was fine, and we got a Jury’s special prize. Meaning diplomas, medals, and some money:D More or less, it is wonderful for a beginning. Now we started to think about some improvements we can bring to the robot, in order to make it really the best platform.
Below you can find some documents we presented at Ankara (.pdf, .ppt and some posters)
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Parts list:
Asus WL-500GP router
Atmel Atmega48 microcontrolle
3x FAN 8082 electric motor drivers
LM2940T voltage regulator
1x SG-5010 servos
3x AS-170 servos (Don’t buy them, they more or less self distruct if the arm somehow gets stuck!)
4x Sanyo 2500mAh NiMh rechargeable batteries
Phillips SPC200NC webcam
Tamiya Track and Wheel set
2x Tamiya Double gearbox
5x white LEDs
Different […]
I wrote the Windows controller, just because the visitors of our stands like better windows than *nix. Since the application’s purpose was just to send plain text over tcp, I used a high leve, basic-like scripting language, AutoIt V3.
First, I should mention some commands the robot knows about:
forward,right,left,back,stop - for movement
ledon,ledoff - for light control
numbers […]
We continued with the robot development after the Jury’s special award in Dreamline International Design Olympiad, and tried to go to other contests. We qualified also to Busef, in Adana,Turkey, but didn’t manage to go, since it was Easter holiday in Romania. But we succeded to qualify to Infomatrix (in Bucharest, Romania), and more than […]
Congratulations!You guys did a great job!
May 25th, 2008 at 10:20 am