The chassis is now more or less operational. Here is a video of it being controlled by an arduino. Robot Challenge 004 from Arkadian.Eu on Vimeo. In this example, all wheels get the same movement instructions, but, as the weight of the battery is falling mostly on one wheel, the rotation is not perfect. In […]
VEX
Vex motors (with the Vex Motor Controller 29) are essentially servos. To use them on an Arduino as motors, all you need to do is figure out the “angles” that give you the right speed. The problem is that all motors are slightly different. To find the right angles for my motors, I simply modified […]
A friend of mine and I decided to start a robot challenge. The aim is simple: each one of us will build a robot, an autonomous vehicle that will be able to get out of a maze on its own. It won’t be remote controlled but it can talk to a remote computer for instructions […]