Well, it was time for a lot of cleanup. Google videos transferred to You Tube. I discovered early development videos as I attempted to get the dogbot to find the opening to a door, to running the bottom of a little $4 junkbot I picked up used.
It makes for a mighty interesting thing, the flat robot running around the room, seemingly headless.
This in turn reminded me of the handiest tool in my robot workbench. It's a motor driver board with an IR detector attached. Sometimes, I just hand wire it to an old robot or RC car chassis, adjust some software, and I can test about any platform available.
Simple yet handy tool. If you have a servo tester, then you are playing at the level that could use this subassembly.
Why the picAxe? Cheapest and quickest way to get going. That's about all.
Later, I'll do something with some of the other chips. It's not that I don't like programming in C...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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