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 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!

Posted in: Programming, Projects, Robot.

All Coding Ahead

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Woohoo! I fixed my soldering iron - it’s FANTABULOUS now! All I did was file it with an Xacto, and sanded it a bit. Now I can finally tin the tip (before I couldn’t) It’s amazing!

My two WiiChuck adapters are finished - I tried to make it work this afternoon, but for some reason the WiiChuck header file by Tom Igoe isn’t working!!! I’m confused… maybe it’s because I’m using Arduino 0012. I’ll be playing around with it more tonight.
The WaveShield is all soldered up I’m thinking about which song I should put on my SD card to test it out… hmmm

There’s so many fun things to do eeeeee all of them are now at the coding stage yay!

Posted in: Programming, Projects, Robot.

Wii Nunchuck Controlled Robot

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

This is what the article says:

I connected a Wii Nunchuck controller to an Arduino, which takes the data from the controller’s I2C data bus, decodes it, and send the data to the robot with a radio transmitter. Charlie uses a radio receiver to get the data, and it will control the drive servo system and the pan tilt servo system using the data. The Nunchuck has a 3 axis accelerometer, a joystick, and 2 buttons, it is absolutely awesome to use with a RC robot like this.

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I have a great idea… I’ll save up my allowance and buy another Arduino and buy a nunchuck wii controller, then put it into my MANOI, spiff up the program to make it walk, then I can have it walking everywhere! I wonder how tricky it would be to set up gyros… Haha! And when I program the two keys, it will be punches and kicks. Not that my MANOI would kick anyone… or would it?
Link.

Posted in: News, Robot News.

Wii Nunchucks and Servos

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Friday, October 26th, 2007

Check this out!
I blogged this in case I want to refer to it again

Posted in: News, Robot News.