Archive for January, 2006
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Buzzbot - Wheel Encoders
Now that the Motor Drive Controller has been worked out, (but yet untested) I needed to make up some encoders for the Left and right Wheels. After a bit of research I found an excellent program for creating encoders and quickly made two and have just glued them to the inside of the wheels for [...]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
BuzzBot Motor Board Schematics
Today I reversed engineered the control board of the RC Buggy and the results are the schematic attached. I was only interested in the Motor Drive CCT so thats all that is drawn.  It looks fairly straight forward to hook up the PICAXE to this board, although the main Driver Transistors are TO-92L type packages, [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
BuzzBot
IntroductionÂ
The Buzzbot idea came to me when i was trying to think what can i do to learn the picaxe uController, something practical, well rather than just flashing Leds and buzz buzzers anyway. What I wanted to do was something robotic that is cheap and easy as I don’t have much of a workshop facility available to [...]
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Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Welcome
First post to christen the new site……
Personal Projects underway.Â
1) Learn the PICAXE, a fantastic little uController, http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/ I have just got my hands on the PICAXE 18X, so in attempt to learn to use this little beast I am looking at interfacing it with a few sensors and turn my sons discarded “Buzz Buggy” into a [...]
