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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Silver Shadow on December 27, 2010, 02:21:02 pm

Title: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on December 27, 2010, 02:21:02 pm
A friend and I have made a line-following robot as a college project. Here are some photos and the C source file (yes, I know it isn't optimized, is in French, and doesn't use functions. It's just that I'm too used to TI-BASIC :P).
Title: Re: My Robot Project
Post by: Munchor on December 27, 2010, 02:27:50 pm
I never really liked electronics and hardware, but good luck! Will it have some kind of sensor to follow the line or it will have the path pre-computed?
Title: Re: My Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on December 27, 2010, 02:28:30 pm
It will have 4 infrared sensors.
Title: Re: My Robot Project
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 27, 2010, 02:30:05 pm
Cool, I'm not into hardware/robotics but it's cool to see some people around here interested into robotics/hardware mods. :)
Title: Re: My Robot Project
Post by: AngelFish on December 27, 2010, 02:57:33 pm
Good luck and remember that if you plan to go with wireless signals, you will probably end up tearing your hair out in frustration.  :)
Title: Re: My Robot Project
Post by: Binder News on December 27, 2010, 05:25:20 pm
I did a little of this kind of stuff. But I was using Lego Robotics. Good luck!!! ;)
Title: Re: My Robot Project
Post by: Builderboy on December 28, 2010, 12:57:59 am
I was into Lego robotics as well and actually won an award for a cookie retrieving robot i built :) This sounds like an awesome project! Good luck! ^^
Title: Re: My Robot Project
Post by: AngelFish on December 28, 2010, 01:00:24 am
 O.O
A lot of former robotics people here...

Any mechanical people? ;D
Title: Re: My Robot Project
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 28, 2010, 02:00:57 am
I was interested in Lego robotics back in the days and I played with K'Nex stuff too, but Legos were too expensive so we had to stick to the ones we had and K'nex motors were battery hogs. I lost interest in Legos around 13 years old then I went more into game creation and the like. In fact, in my last 2 years into Legos, I just RP'ed with figurines and a calculator
Title: Re: My Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on December 28, 2010, 08:55:48 am
Good luck and remember that if you plan to go with wireless signals, you will probably end up tearing your hair out in frustration.  :)

Don't worry, it will be fully autonomous, without any signal reception of any kind.
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on December 29, 2010, 06:39:45 am
*BUMP*

Added a small drawing of the sensors' disposition. The black line is the line the robot is supposed to follow.
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 30, 2010, 03:47:03 am
Nice, when you finish the robot itself and get it to work, will you post a Youtube video of it? :D
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Builderboy on December 30, 2010, 03:51:55 am
Autonomous is the way to go :D And i can't wait to see it in action! ^^ Pretty please post youtube video when you get it working :)
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on December 30, 2010, 07:35:38 am
/me now needs to make a YouTube account...
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on January 01, 2011, 02:53:12 pm
*BUMP*
Could a moderator please move this topic to the newly created "Technology, Hardware and Electronics" forum? Thx.
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: yunhua98 on January 01, 2011, 03:03:35 pm
done  ;)
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Ashbad on January 01, 2011, 03:05:55 pm
hey, to tell the truth I'm the progamer for my high school's robotics team ;D yeah i also liek hardware/electronics too.

Good idea, dude.  though I can't pretend I know much about sensors and control centers, can you give the specs for the programming for it?  (though i guess it's very limited or non-existent, you don't really need it.)
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: fb39ca4 on January 01, 2011, 03:07:39 pm
Thisll be sweet once its done. I got an old lego mindstorms kit from my uncle a few years back, but the IR transmitter for the computer is broken so I cant program it. :( I think it would be cool to make a robot that uses a calc as the processor somehow.
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Ashbad on January 01, 2011, 03:09:19 pm
that would be pretty cool, it could give you hints on how to program liek a boss in axe :)
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: fb39ca4 on January 01, 2011, 03:12:06 pm
that would be pretty cool, it could give you hints on how to program liek a boss in axe :)
/me is confus - ed
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on January 01, 2011, 03:40:29 pm
Hey, don't think that I'm a n00b in Axe, I used it right from its beginning... ;)
And no, I won't be using a calc to control it, it will have a dedicated chip for that. I don't have the exact specifications, as my friend currently has it.
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 01, 2011, 08:15:45 pm
I wonder where was located the topic in the first place? I didn't find it when I mass-moved topics. O.O

EDIT: Nvm it was in computer programming. Also I'm really looking forward for updates on this :).
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on January 03, 2011, 01:59:17 pm
UPDATE: added some screenies photos (haven't tried "Ctrl+S"ing my handwritten work yet... :P so not all hope is gone XD) of the real thing to the 1st post... :)
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: AngelFish on January 03, 2011, 02:59:38 pm
hey, to tell the truth I'm the progamer for my high school's robotics team ;D
/me loves mechanics :P
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 04, 2011, 03:10:49 am
Just looked at the first post update. Nice, Silver Shadow. :D
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on May 28, 2011, 11:58:40 am
*BUMP*
Robot finished. First post updated. :D
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on May 28, 2011, 03:48:05 pm
Nice. Maybe you could post a video when you've got the time? :)
Title: Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
Post by: Silver Shadow on May 29, 2011, 03:37:13 am
Sure, I'll have to ask my friend, as he's the one who has it.