Thursday, November 15, 2012

My first ground up Rover Robot


I've assembled other robots before but normally it would be either with a kit to be assembled and I would just have to program the arduino sketch.  This one here is what they call for us: My First! This means you build it ground up. Cut/machine the parts, drill the holes, choose your screws, bolts, and nuts. 
 
 This rover is made with an  Aceduino board(Arduino clone) as brains, an SRF05 sonar sensor as eyes, a TowerPro SG-5010 as neck (for panning), and 2 autonomous rotation servos for locomotion.

Since autonomous robots are hard to find, get the normal servo (SG-5010) which turns 180 degrees, cut off the tab to allow 360 degrees of rotation, change the potentiometer with two equal valued resistors and there you have your wheels.