Micromouse is an event where small robot mice solve a 16×16 maze. The maze is made up of a 16 by 16 grid of cells, each 180 mm square with walls 50 mm high. The mice are completely autonomous robots that must find their way from a predetermined starting position to the central area of [...]
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Arduino Based Wireless Joypad
On January - 15 - 2009 7 COMMENTS
I was thinking about designing a Wireless Joypad to control my Robot, and finally came up with an idea to make it out of a cheap Gigaware PS2 Joypad found at Radioshack, which was only $9.99. It has: 2 Joysticks 1 8-way D-Pad (Direction Pad) 8 Action Buttons, and 4 Extra Buttons (Select, Start, Macro, [...]
Differential Drive Robot – ver.2
On September - 21 - 2008 21 COMMENTS
Hi everyone, this is the improved version of my previous Differential Drive Robot. I didn’t think about any name yet; but will figure out one soon. Anyway, this improved prototype has an IR Rangefinder attached to it which can detect distance of any object in front of it within a range of 10cm to 80cm. [...]
ATmega AVR Development Board
On September - 14 - 2008 5 COMMENTS
Today I have just completed building the brain of my Robot, the MCU Board using ATmega8 AVR Microcontroller. This MCU Board can be powered by 6V Adapter or 5 1.2V NiMH Rechargable Batteries. ATmega8 AVR runs on 5V, and thet’s the reason I used National Semiconductor’s Low Dropout Voltage Regulator LM2940T. For programming the AVR, [...]