Friday Night Robotics

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Yay!! Tonight I worked on my new/old robot… It’s the robot with the chassis of the Stanley robot that I started making at Stanford in the summer. It has a gerabox to power two motors for front wheel drive, plus there’s a servo to “steer” the gearbox.

The cool part is that I use a Wii nunchuck to control the robot :D Tonight I coded in which way is which- tilted to the left/front/back/right. The tilt to the back doesn’t work very often, so I have to fix it :)
By this point, you’re probably wondering where the pictures are =) I can’t upload photos with this version of wordpress (and I’m too sleepy to ftp them right now), but I’ll add them in tomorrow as I’m changing my blog to Wordpress 2.7 tomorrow, with a new theme ^_^ I really really really like the new theme. It’s going to be awesome!

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One Response to “Friday Night Robotics”

  1. RobotGrrl.com » Blog Archive » Hockey MANOI + Wii Nunchuck Says:
    November 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 PM

    [...] It was super easy since I already had the configuration ready because of my other robot. [...]

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