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Category: Mechatronics
Electronics, Embedded, Robotics
Arduino – Line following robot – part 5 (LCD display)
We wanted a LCD to display various settings and generally to impress the crowd 🙂 We ended up using the standard 16×2 LCD display....
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Arduino – Line following robot – part 4 (Motor driver)
Part 3: Motor driver board We used 2 gear motors with rubber wheels. 14 cm Zip/cable ties were used (2 per each motor) to fix the motors to the base plate. It has the following features: [table id=1 /...
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Arduino – Line following robot – part 3 (Optical sensors)
Part 3: Optical sensor board After visiting many similar projects and testing loads of designs we settled down to use 3 sensors arranged as a triangle. Our assumptions of deciding the distances were b...
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Arduino – Line following robot – part 2 (Body)
Part 2 : Constructing the body We decided the size to be 12cm x 10cm. We needed the space to fix the Arduino board and motor driver, at this point the boys wanted to install a knight rider light syste...
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Arduino – Line following robot – part 1
Part 1 : Brainstorm I was looking for an effective way to teach how a CPU work to bunch of AL students. The kids were seriously bored studying the history of computers, NBF form, system flow chart dia...
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BIOS updating with a Bootable CD !
Yes, that’s exactly the problem I faced today morning. My Asus-P5VDC-MX based PC started throwing me the (infamous) mup.sys error. It goes like this, I click the ‘ON’ button, I see ...
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ePDA : The world’s first bluetooth, Unix, ARM based PDA
I would like to share some of the rare pictures of ePDA. A brave project started by MediaSolv in 1999. It was ahead of its time, just like many other projects MediaSolv tried hard to commercialize....
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Robot hand PC interface
I guess my love for robots started when I was in eighth grade or so. It must be the tele-series ‘Battle Star Galactica‘ and continues visits to my school library’s, ‘science &#...
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