So, I have ordered a 4WD DFRobot body and assembled it. On top of it I have mounted a Fez Panda, 2A Motor Shield, SD Card Shield and a Xbee Shield.
Also mounted is a 9DOF IMU, GPS Module and Ping. I will be using 3 COM Ports (Xbee, IMU and GPS). I haven’t worked out the Ping connection, how I will deal with the encoder signals and the servo. All of which right now are not that important.
very nice. They also make a pan a tilt that goes where the servos go so you can have more freedom. Keep us up on the project let us know how it goes :>
I mount every board with velcro to the robots/projects I make. Because I do a lot of prototyping, I can easily get boards/components of excising projects and use them on something else. Velcro is AWESOME.
You robot is looking nice! I like the IMU and GPS setup.
Please keep us posted, especially when this baby is driving on GPS ;D
http://www.tinyclr.com/forum/16/1247/ here are pictures of the pan and tilt itself. After looking at that reminded me i need to update that post with the robot that competed.
I ended up using the IR triggers from DFRobot (3 of them) in addition to 2 ultrasonic range finders. I’m still working the sensor code and don’t have my motors hooked up (aside from the servo).
I’m having a heck of a time with my Xbees tho. Sometimes they work fine, sometimes they just don’t.