Archive for the ‘Robots’ Category

3pi Coaster Bot

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Time to write about another robotics project I did! Make hosted a robot building contest, where you had to build a robot that was able to navigate around an area on its own. However, this project had to use a CD or disc somewhere in the robot. I took the wheels off my 3pi robot, and taped them to a blank CD for wheels! ;)

3pi Coaster Bot

I taped the wheels that came with the 3pi to the blank CD, and I had to try taping it several ways before I found a way that worked well. Once I did that, I was able to upload some of the line-tracking code to the 3pi.

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Once that was all done, I was able to make the 3pi navigate through a maze, and since the coasters made it taller, it was able to track a wider area (with a few ajustments).

I didn’t win, but I still qualified, I get a Maker’s Notebook, and it made it on the Make site today! :D

Thanks to everyone who helped! :)

Robot building!

Monday, March 15th, 2010

I’ve finally started my new robot! Currently, I just have and Arduino connected to a few servos (which will be for the legs and arms), but  I plan to get more of it completed this week. Stay posted, I hope I have more very soon!