Chibots

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Prototype line follower for Chibots November 2009 RBDO. Uses transistors controlled by IR sensors to stop/start motors depending on position of line. Two 100K pots adjust sensibility and two geared motors guarantee a slow speed.

Demonstration robot showing smooth line
following without a mcrocomputer. The control
design is a modification of the "Sandwich bot."

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Tagbot two is another behavior robot for demonstrations based on Eddy Wright's original design. Tagbot will stay within an area defined by a line of white tape and will wander within the arena until it runs into another Tagbot, which causes Tagbot to stop and wait. If another tagbot runs into it again, it will resume wandering. The plan is to have around 6 tagbots running together.

Salvador will be following up on his wonderful BEAM presentation by building a line following BEAM bot at the next meeting. This will be a RBDO so everyone will be building their own BEAM bot along with him. In order to have enough parts for everyone I need to know who would like to build a robot. I will be providing the parts free of charge for use during the meeting but if you would like to keep your robot there will be a small cost (~$30).  Please send me an email at: iamscottym (at) yahoo (dot) com to reserve a kit.

Parts:
2 Faulhaber gearmotors

With iHobbyExpo right around the corner, I wanted to share a great video I found over at Robot Dreams. I think these are 3kg bots. Plainly, they are fully autonomous. The video makes me want to start a 3kg match here! Watch it, you'll be amazed!

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Tankbot is a generic robot platform that will be used for further development. Thought I'd share it with everyone at this stage because of the toy tank hacking, creating a great chassis for robot development for under $30!

I've gutted all of the original electronics in the toy and converted it into an RC tank. Plans include mounting the turret onto a servo and adding an ultrasonic sensor for autonomous action.

Go here for more info: http://vaperized.com/tankbot.htm

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Hexabot is a 6 wheel, 6 motor tabletop bot. It is built completely from Tamiya robotic components and uses the DevBoard-M32 to control it.