Hello! I just want to present you my project. This is a small robot made with a Foxboard. The aim of this robot is to implement path planning algorithms, environment discovery, and other funny algorithms. Probably a CMUCAM later, for playing soccer with a pingpong ball.
Some photos: http://ze.bot.free.fr/zebot_100.JPG http://ze.bot.free.fr/zebot_101.JPG http://ze.bot.free.fr/zebot_102.JPG http://ze.bot.free.fr/zebot_103.JPG http://ze.bot.free.fr/zebot_104.JPG http://ze.bot.free.fr/zebot_105.JPG http://ze.bot.free.fr/zebot_106.JPG Characteristics: * 16cm diameter; 15cm high; wheight approx 1kg * Chassis made of plexiglass * Foxboard + Wifi (WiFi doesn't work well...) * microcontroler "Picbasic 3B" interfacing: sonars, motors, LCD display, buzzer, and measuring battery voltage. Asynchronous serial link 19200bds with Foxboard * 5 SRF04 ultra sonic range finders (sonars) * Optical encoders mounted on wheel axes. Rests of mechanical mouse. Decoder: HCTL2032. * 2 electronic boards made with "veroboards", wrapping and soldering. One board for "power", the other for "logical". * battery: NiMh 9.6V 2000mAh (home made). Autonomy: 2 to 3 hours (full activity and WiFi). * integrated battery charge controller (Max712) * 5V regulator LM2575 * motor-gearbox: Tamiya 70 097; H-bridge: L298N Progress of the project: * Mechanic finished * electronic finished * low level software (FoxBoard and PicBasic) finished * high level software: just began I will probably make a web site when I will have more software done. I confirm that the fox board is a great product: easy to use, powerfull, compact, low power consumption. Still some bugs, but a good product. Thank you to all the acmesystems team! Do not hesitate do make any comment about this project. Leon. French robot builder.
