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Snail the Light Seeker

This creature roams through the surrounding environment and seeks for light sources. When an object is too close it reverses motion and turns around, and then goes on seeking light. I used an old toy motor and platform, then added two LDR light sensors, a SHARP infrared sensor on the front and Arduino Diecimila for [...]

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2008 08 31 GUI Robots
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big br0 (work in progress)

Here goes my second robot. This turns out to be the 4th robot actually  :) I found this offroad car in an old junk and it was love at first sight! Now I want to add some brains and sensors and give him a new life :] The steering DCmotor burned out and I’ve removed [...]

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2008 08 19 GUI bigbro
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Baratinha (My 1st Robot)

This was my first robotic experiment, I used an arduino and a motor shield with one servo for steering and a small dc motor for traction. I didn’t have any cool sensors like infrared or ultrasonic at the moment, so I used two micro-switches to be like bug sensors. And I called it “baratinha”, a [...]

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2008 08 19 GUI Baratinha
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