Hello Guys,
I am in grade 9 now and in a few days we will be starting our skills robotics. It is a huge competition which is held at a university. “The core game concept is gathering your assigned colour pallets and delivering these pallets into a shared resource: ‘The Loading Dock”. The recommend electronic parts are:
[ul]electronic speed controllers
RC transmitter / receiver
servo motors
batteries
PLC unit and interface
Microprocessor[/ul]
There is also a very specific rule on the radio that can be used.
[ol]All teams must use 2.4 GHz non crystal radios.
Only six channels of a single RC radio / single receiver set can be used.
Robots may not transmit information on a signal of any type to ‘off the robot devices. [/ol]
Agree with Architect…for a robot, Cerbuino Bee makes a compelling case, since you can use Gadgeteer Modules, or just use the analog and digital pins (or both). Inexpensive and flexible, plus it has the power jack right on the board (Cerberus, you’d need either a USB Client SP or DP module).
The bee is my current all-around favorite board…only thing I’d change on it is maybe to add 3 more sockets and enough RAM to use the T35e display.
sensory overload…
In the current bot i have there are 2 gp2d12 sensors on the front L/R corners , and gp2d120 sitting on a servo in the center-front so the bot can determine the longest distance to its left or right w/o an obstacles after it is front-blocked by rotating the servo left then right. it also has a pir that attempts to distinguish ‘humans’ from inanimate objects. and finally there is xbee pro on module (which i see this board already supports) and the motor controller+encoder. I’d like to replace the board with a gadgeteer board and use gadgeteer modules where available. i’d also like to add a camera/video…