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Randomskk posted a photo:
I think the hardware is pretty much all assembled now! The batteries went together today and now connect up to everything, although I may mount them a bit more permanently in the future. The buzzer’s held on with tape but it’s light weight and protected by the case; everything else is bolted on.
This robot will use its camera to track the user, following them around and taking photos to store to the SD card. The software’s progressing nicely enough - at the moment I can clearly see what’s on the screen, but it’s only a small fraction of the total image and the colours are not yet accurate. The chip doesn’t have enough RAM to hold the entire image on the screen at once unfortunately, but I should be able to process each line before the next one comes in.
The robot uses an ARM Cortex-M3 STM32F103VBT6 microprocessor with a TCM8230MD camera from SparkFun, an OLED screen module on the back (also from SparkFun) with a navigation switch, modified servos for motors, various voltage regulators for the camera and main circuitry, a ball bearing caster on the bottom, a piezo buzzer to make it beep at you, three 1100mAh lithium polymer batteries (one for the main systems and two in series for the servos), PCBs made by Golden Phoenix in China and some standard power LEDs as headlights.
Randomskk posted a photo:
I think the hardware is pretty much all assembled now! The batteries went together today and now connect up to everything, although I may mount them a bit more permanently in the future. The buzzer’s held on with tape but it’s light weight and protected by the case; everything else is bolted on.
This robot will use its camera to track the user, following them around and taking photos to store to the SD card. The software’s progressing nicely enough - at the moment I can clearly see what’s on the screen, but it’s only a small fraction of the total image and the colours are not yet accurate. The chip doesn’t have enough RAM to hold the entire image on the screen at once unfortunately, but I should be able to process each line before the next one comes in.
The robot uses an ARM Cortex-M3 STM32F103VBT6 microprocessor with a TCM8230MD camera from SparkFun, an OLED screen module on the back (also from SparkFun) with a navigation switch, modified servos for motors, various voltage regulators for the camera and main circuitry, a ball bearing caster on the bottom, a piezo buzzer to make it beep at you, three 1100mAh lithium polymer batteries (one for the main systems and two in series for the servos), PCBs made by Golden Phoenix in China and some standard power LEDs as headlights.
Randomskk posted a photo:
I think the hardware is pretty much all assembled now! The batteries went together today and now connect up to everything, although I may mount them a bit more permanently in the future. The buzzer’s held on with tape but it’s light weight and protected by the case; everything else is bolted on.
This robot will use its camera to track the user, following them around and taking photos to store to the SD card. The software’s progressing nicely enough - at the moment I can clearly see what’s on the screen, but it’s only a small fraction of the total image and the colours are not yet accurate. The chip doesn’t have enough RAM to hold the entire image on the screen at once unfortunately, but I should be able to process each line before the next one comes in.
The robot uses an ARM Cortex-M3 STM32F103VBT6 microprocessor with a TCM8230MD camera from SparkFun, an OLED screen module on the back (also from SparkFun) with a navigation switch, modified servos for motors, various voltage regulators for the camera and main circuitry, a ball bearing caster on the bottom, a piezo buzzer to make it beep at you, three 1100mAh lithium polymer batteries (one for the main systems and two in series for the servos), PCBs made by Golden Phoenix in China and some standard power LEDs as headlights.
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Randomskk posted a photo:
I think the hardware is pretty much all assembled now! The batteries went together today and now connect up to everything, although I may mount them a bit more permanently in the future. The buzzer’s held on with tape but it’s light weight and protected by the case; everything else is bolted on.
This robot will use its camera to track the user, following them around and taking photos to store to the SD card. The software’s progressing nicely enough - at the moment I can clearly see what’s on the screen, but it’s only a small fraction of the total image and the colours are not yet accurate. The chip doesn’t have enough RAM to hold the entire image on the screen at once unfortunately, but I should be able to process each line before the next one comes in.
The robot uses an ARM Cortex-M3 STM32F103VBT6 microprocessor with a TCM8230MD camera from SparkFun, an OLED screen module on the back (also from SparkFun) with a navigation switch, modified servos for motors, various voltage regulators for the camera and main circuitry, a ball bearing caster on the bottom, a piezo buzzer to make it beep at you, three 1100mAh lithium polymer batteries (one for the main systems and two in series for the servos), PCBs made by Golden Phoenix in China and some standard power LEDs as headlights.
Michigan FIRST Robotics Realigning - WWJ Newsradio 950
Michigan’s FIRST Robotics competition this winter will undergo major changes in an effort to extend the competition to teams who find it difficult to muster tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships. Michigan is the first state in the country to …
