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Left Wheel Calibration

Right, repetitive iterative testing sort of completed on the left wheel, although I do have some questions need answering about it. Here is the data: 13, 752, 0.20 13, 746, 0.15 13, 753, 0.25 13, 745, 0.2 13, 754, 0.33 … Continue reading

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Right Wheel Calibration

I’m thinking if someone happens to just stumble across this blog and start reading it without any knowledge of the subject, they would look at this post and think I was possibly the most boring person allowed to post content … Continue reading

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Establishing and discovering performance

Ok, so I managed to get the base build of the bot completed a couple of days ago. Since then, I’ve been doing a fair bit of tinkering with it and repetitive testing of what it can do. Found a … Continue reading

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Assisted Rangefinding

I’ve adapted this idea from one found at this website: sites.google.com/site/todddanko/home/webcam_laser_ranger To save you clicking the link, that page describes a method of making a do it yourself laser range finder, using a webcam and a cheap laser pointing device. … Continue reading

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Major Assembly Completed

            Apologies for the image heavy post, with luck I wont have to do that again. Ok, just like the title says, the major part of the assembly has been completed. As you can see … Continue reading

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Assembly Preparations

Next step, after going through the coding exercises, is assembling the robot. The picture above shows the chassis with some spacers screwed to it, the battery pack with batteries removed and the servomotors with their control horns removed.

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On the importance of centering the servos

LEDs and Resistors Circuit Built Servos connected. The next exercise in the manual is looking using an actual circuit on the breadboard, programmatically making two Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)flash on and off. This may seem like fairly basic stuff to … Continue reading

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Time Control

Just to have an idea what sort of things we are looking at to start with from the manual, I’ll occasionally post some of the code the exercise is asking me to perform. The exercise I just finished is early … Continue reading

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Unboxing? Sorta Kinda

I was originally going to do a grand unboxing of the bot, but I’m actually so keen to get into it, I’m not going to bother. Instead, I’m going to go through the exercises included in the impressive looking manual … Continue reading

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Parallax BOE bot kit

The next few robotics posts are from my http://blogbotics.blogspot.com site. Frosty piss! That’s slashdot for first post. Since I’m posting this from my mobile phone, it isn’t going to be a huge post. At the weekend, I ordered a this … Continue reading

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