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Silver Shadow's Robot Project
« 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).
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Re: My Robot Project
« Reply #1 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?

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Re: My Robot Project
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2010, 02:28:30 pm »
It will have 4 infrared sensors.
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Re: My Robot Project
« Reply #3 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. :)

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Re: My Robot Project
« Reply #4 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.  :)
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Re: My Robot Project
« Reply #5 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!!! ;)
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Re: My Robot Project
« Reply #6 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! ^^

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Re: My Robot Project
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2010, 01:00:24 am »
 O.O
A lot of former robotics people here...

Any mechanical people? ;D
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Re: My Robot Project
« Reply #8 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
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Re: My Robot Project
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
« Reply #11 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

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Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
« Reply #12 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 :)

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Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2010, 07:35:38 am »
* Silver Shadow now needs to make a YouTube account...
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Re: Silver Shadow's Robot Project
« Reply #14 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.
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