Search My Blog

Monday, September 20, 2010

Autonomous rover roams the halls - Hack a Day

Autonomous rover roams the halls

posted Sep 19th 2010 12:00pm by Mike Szczys
filed under: toy hacks

[ESylin] built an autonomous rover that roams the vacant halls of his school. On the hood of the vehicle he’s mounted two Maxbotix sonar sensors that do a great job of keeping the vehicle centered in the hallway. It will follow a wall around a corner (favoring its left side because of the left-facing sensor) and it will stop to correct itself if it gets off course. That’s because when you’re not driving a dsPIC33 is, with a Traxxas XL-5 speed controller and a hobby servo for steering. But this little guy hasn’t lost all his pep. Manual control and be switched on from from an R/C controller so you can burn up the floor tiles. Take a look at the demo after the break, with the manual control demo shown at about 4:10.

tagged: , , , , , , ,

Go there see Video...
http://hackaday.com/2010/09/19/autonomous-rover-roams-the-halls/

Don

No comments: