We're building a simple robot for our electrical engineering class at Berkeley. The only thing it MUST be able to do is stop when it senses a wall (via light sensors) and then back up and turn.
It runs on two-tank like treads and has the circuit board built on top (picture included). It has a serial connection for connecting it to a computer or any other sort of input device.
It has NO limitations on what we want it to do (except we can't do anything destructive.
). We can make it remote controlled, climb stairs, travel in water, anything! Anyways, my partner and I were looking for original ideas of what we want it to do. We were thinking of maybe making it a hovercraft (via some high-output 120mm fans). Is it possible? We also think it'd be cool if we made it climb stairs.
Getting ahold of additional electrical parts (sensors, LED's, logic processors, etc) isn't much of a problem since my dad works for an electrical engineering company.
Anyways- give me some of your original ideas! Nothing destructive please! And remember- we're limited by the hardware and $$$, so nothing like strapping on a jet engine and making it fly.
It's being controlled by a 50 Mhz C167CR (16 bit CMOS single-chip microcontroller), has 32 kb RAM and 64 kb flash.
Best robot gets automatic full credit on hw's and a nice digital camera!
Low-res pics from web cam:
Top View
Front View
Side View
Angle View
Processor
Thanks for any input!
It runs on two-tank like treads and has the circuit board built on top (picture included). It has a serial connection for connecting it to a computer or any other sort of input device.
It has NO limitations on what we want it to do (except we can't do anything destructive.
). We can make it remote controlled, climb stairs, travel in water, anything! Anyways, my partner and I were looking for original ideas of what we want it to do. We were thinking of maybe making it a hovercraft (via some high-output 120mm fans). Is it possible? We also think it'd be cool if we made it climb stairs.Getting ahold of additional electrical parts (sensors, LED's, logic processors, etc) isn't much of a problem since my dad works for an electrical engineering company.
Anyways- give me some of your original ideas! Nothing destructive please! And remember- we're limited by the hardware and $$$, so nothing like strapping on a jet engine and making it fly.
It's being controlled by a 50 Mhz C167CR (16 bit CMOS single-chip microcontroller), has 32 kb RAM and 64 kb flash.
Best robot gets automatic full credit on hw's and a nice digital camera!
Low-res pics from web cam:
Top View
Front View
Side View
Angle View
Processor
Thanks for any input!
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