OVR stands for Open Video Robot, a completely open platform for building your own robot, and improve it according to your needs, starting from a standard wireless router. What we built is just a small example of what can be developed on this idea, an infinite number of ideas can be produces.
On this blog you will find not just the description of the development process of our robot, but also some ideas, given by us and by users. If you have any idea for improvement, write it in a comment, and it will be added on our website
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 […]