Here is my Long Persistence Of Vision canvas for Picaxe Tate gallery ......
Here is a run through with the nuts and bolts of the system....
http://youtu.be/3VqeDc1fvhI
Its a basic BOT120 PICAXE-20X2 Microbot system with a custom undercarriage which i assembled for it.
It was no easy job to...
Simple Infra Red Eyes
The Eyes are made from a Infra Red Led and Infra Red dectector diode.
It is used to detect reflected IR off an object (or it could be inverted to detect cliffs instead)
The detector is shielded to stop it detecting stray IR leaking out from the side of the IR TX LED..
You...
Programming cable "Eco Style"
Because the stepper motor driver has 3 extra inverters left over ....
.... its possible to use these to invert the RX/TX signal from cost effective USB_FTDI converters (ie $2 ones)
Here you see my "Hot Shoe" picaxe with modified stepper board converting...
Right and Left Brain Halves
Here are the Left and Right Brain halves......
One 08M2 has been made to directly fit the stepper-motor driver like a back pack (meaning the stepper has its own exclusive mcu driving the step sequences, now there is an interesting concept)
The second 08M2 was added...
"EL Skorpiano"
(Q:-...how can i enlarge my pictures in the post ?)
This is a project based on Picaxe 08M2 chips.
It is an Autonomous Robot using Stepper motors and Infra Red Leds as sensors
Below is its third support leg..... a Glowstick enables a smooth transit over bumps and curves..(and...
Sub $20 Robot Chassis inc Picaxe28X1 & motors
I have been trying for a long time to create cheap accurate robots to use in a "Swarm" environment.
Most "workable robots" tend to hit the $100 mark ..... frankly this is way to much.
The best sub $20 solution i have found so far is presented...