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.

I would [...]

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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Make Controller

My new Make controller arrived today from www.makethings.com/makecontrollerkit  Talk about fast delivery, just ordered it last week and arrived here in Western Australia today woohoo….
This impressive board seems to have pretty good specs, and from my initial look at it I’m pretty impressed by the features for the price.

Using the Embedded AT91SAM7X which is Based [...]

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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. 
Don’t get [...]

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