Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Buzzbot - Odometry Task

Now that I have my Interrupts working on the the PIO Port, I have successfully adapted some code to provide Odometry for Buzzbot, based on reading the wheel encoders.    
This odometry task provides me with the following data:

Buzzbots Location in 2D Space (X and Y cooridinates).
Current Heading in Degees.
Average distance travelled in centimeters.
Angle of rotation about the axis.

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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

BuzzBot - PicAxe Frustrations

Frustrations 
I have to make some decisions on what direction I need to go with my buzzbot project, basically I have been frustrated with some short comings of the PICAXE microcontroller.  The main being lack of any onboard timers and having only one common interrupt available.  Also I think that I’m trying to fit too much onto one of these babies. 
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