US range finder ideas
Found a very simple range finder here. Fairly basic though. Would like to try and use my mega sensitive Inst Amp on it, or at least use one of the inferior inst amps. INA121 maybe…
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More thoughts, keep changing my mind!! - Inked
Still havent had any time to do anything yet but:
Ive decided to run multiple IR modules off one 18F pic then:
I can have a proper multi-master I2C configuration which means proper interrupts.
The IR module will now be smaller/cheaper because of the lack of another pic
Could put some extra fuctions on it too, like voltage/current monitoring [...]
ZBot want to get something working! Inked Thoughts
Decisions:There is no point using some complicated I2C when you can use a simple on/off line. AlthoughWhat about inter-IR communications?And it should be independent and modular?I think that I am going to bypass the I2C for now. Use the I2C bus as an On/Off for ALL Ir sensors to get things up and running.
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Status of the ZBot
Ive finally had some time to do a little work on this projct. Being someone that wants everything done right, and to learn, do everything by myself, where it would normally take a weekend to knock some crappy robot together takes a little longer!
Firstoff, I have treated myself to a Robo Jr Chassis from www.active-robots.com, [...]
Start of the ZBot
Basically want to create a cluster of robots using a mesh’ed ad-hoc network. This will be done using zigbee, but the problem is that I havent created any robots before so I will have to go through the motions before I get to the zigbee part.
So far I have created a primitive IR proximit [...]