My robot im making

[dsv101]

I'm making a robot for a competition *With Cooshinator*, it is a tactile maze solving robot.
Here are some pics so far.

The circuit on a breadboard, will be on a custom pcb 7.4 cm by 3.5 cm:

The structure made of plexiglass top layer not glued on yet because it needs 3 holes drilled in it:

 

[brunoip]

*linking* big pictures

 

[dsv101]

i fixed that right after i posted

 

[XCVG]

Put a spinning reciprocating saw blade on it.

 

[dsv101]

haha, damaging the maze is against the rules, if this was a battle bot, of course i would.

 

[bentomo]

Then put lasers, sawblades, and a self destruct button on it to destroy the maze after it has been thoroughly roflpwned.

 

[dsv101]

I actually had this idea to make it so it busts through all the walls straight to the finish line!
And deal!

 

[brunoip]

So it is going to get out from a maze without any human help? It sounds good.
The wheels are atached to servos? Are them hacked for continuos rotation?
Regards, bruno

 

[dsv101]

Yes, yes, and yes. Thanks.

 

[mymixed]

Nice, What microcontroller are you using?

- mymixed

 

[dsv101]

An AVR Atmega328 with the arduino bootloader for easy code uploading.

 

[dsv101]

 

[dsv101]

bump bump

the competition is in 1 week from tomorrow, just a few things need to be done (mount the bumper and perfect the code) Id upload pics now, but i think a video from the compo will be better

 

[Snipeye]

Mind posting the source code? As an arduino fan, that'd be interesting to see.

 

[dsv101]

sure, i hope Coosh Doesnt Mind

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7898392/mazebot ... llower.pde

If follows the right wall, we found this to be most effective in the time we had to edit the code and test.

 

[dsv101]

DOUBLE POST

keep in mind the constants for the servo directions, ours were crappy and a bit glitchy, so those will be completely different on your servos. Also, the buttons A and B may be the wrong sides i dont remember.

 

[Cooshinator]

sure, i hope Coosh Doesnt Mind

THE *Can'tSayThisOnTV* MAN !?!?!?!?!

But yeah, you should upload the old code too, as the new one sucks ass (I had to completely re-do it in about 10 minutes). And besides, the old code is much more effective & interesting.

 

[dsv101]

this is the old code i think, the code we had when we were testing it on my bins and boxes. The new code isnt that terrible, but it has to be adjusted to different servos, well yeah thew new code is bad, nvmd.

 

[mymixed]

Cool! How'd the competition go?

- mymixed

 

[dsv101]

still waiting for an exact placement, but we know we are in the top 10 of the high school division for sure. Some asian chick out of out grade level did the maze in 40 seconds! Ours took like 3:14 or something like that. It was fun, and definitely worth the time.