To All,
My name is Charles Walsh I pastor a wonderful church here in Montana and about 25 years ago started teaching young minds how to design and build all types of robots. Now I can design and build robots, but barely have enough time to make a program to use them. As an educator in the study and construction of mechanical designed robots I have been pressed for time to get the robots moving. So, because of this restraint I have simply controlled the robots with tethered wires. It's time to cut the cord and make a programmable robot to run the gambit courses with a program using an 18M2+ chip as we have some in the class inventory. But, I need help, How about a program that uses 4 buttons which represent compass directions. We have lots of mini push button switches, and some led's as a feedback to the student. The student can then map out the course it wants the robot to follow by pressing direction arrows say one press of the north button moves the robot 4 inches or so straight ahead, pressing the east button turns the robot say 45 degrees and so on for the other buttons. The program would record the presses and then when the student is ready, play back the moves with actual movement. Which will get our cool robots off the wires which dangle twist and tangle. We have a cool robot I call grip_bot it uses three geared motors, one for left side locomotion, one for right side locomotion, and a final for opening a cool gripper I designed for the 3D printer. if you prefer we could use continuous rotation servos thus using the PWM control. In fact I would appreciate all the help we can get and the goal is to get the robot off the cord! i have checked out Mr. Eric Ostendorff's very ingenious Big Trak robot mode, but it works on a 20X and I checked all the links trying to find the article he wrote to construct his robot in Robot Magazine dated Sept-Aug of 2012, but, to no avail. Thank you All in advance.
My name is Charles Walsh I pastor a wonderful church here in Montana and about 25 years ago started teaching young minds how to design and build all types of robots. Now I can design and build robots, but barely have enough time to make a program to use them. As an educator in the study and construction of mechanical designed robots I have been pressed for time to get the robots moving. So, because of this restraint I have simply controlled the robots with tethered wires. It's time to cut the cord and make a programmable robot to run the gambit courses with a program using an 18M2+ chip as we have some in the class inventory. But, I need help, How about a program that uses 4 buttons which represent compass directions. We have lots of mini push button switches, and some led's as a feedback to the student. The student can then map out the course it wants the robot to follow by pressing direction arrows say one press of the north button moves the robot 4 inches or so straight ahead, pressing the east button turns the robot say 45 degrees and so on for the other buttons. The program would record the presses and then when the student is ready, play back the moves with actual movement. Which will get our cool robots off the wires which dangle twist and tangle. We have a cool robot I call grip_bot it uses three geared motors, one for left side locomotion, one for right side locomotion, and a final for opening a cool gripper I designed for the 3D printer. if you prefer we could use continuous rotation servos thus using the PWM control. In fact I would appreciate all the help we can get and the goal is to get the robot off the cord! i have checked out Mr. Eric Ostendorff's very ingenious Big Trak robot mode, but it works on a 20X and I checked all the links trying to find the article he wrote to construct his robot in Robot Magazine dated Sept-Aug of 2012, but, to no avail. Thank you All in advance.