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{ Monthly Archives } September 2008

Farrusco tries to write ‘LMR’

While coding new interactivity into this robot and trying to achieve better control on the way it moved, I thought it would be cool to see what happened if I mounted one little servo to hold a pen and asked it to write ‘LMR’ – the initials of the website:  www.letsmakerobots.com
The idea came from this [...]

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Easy Arduino Robot Tutorial – Part I

VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS
UPDATE: I decided to remove the H-Bridge part, now the motors are directly connected to the AA batteries, and the Arduino is connected to the 9V battery. This little bot will move only forward.
In Part II, I will add an H-Bridge and two SPDT Bump Switches. The robot will move in both directions [...]

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Remote Control to Arduino

I vandalized an RC toy and connected the motor wires to Arduino digital pins.
It only gives us 1´s and 0´s which means low control, but can be handy someday  :)

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