Last Thursday was a big day for Project Arduino. Mr. Mander kindly paid a visit to our meeting to discuss an opportunity to collaborate on making some really cool arduino-powered robots.
Mr. Mander purchased Jazzy Electric Wheelchairs, and has an idea of controlling them with Arduinos; we would override the on-board joystick components, and allow the Arduino to take control.
We kick-started this idea last Thursday, October 15th, with the a distance-sensitive light display and buzzer. As an object (your hand, for example) approaches the ultrasonic sensor, the LEDS would light up one-by-one, and if the object is within five centimeters of the sensor, the buzzer would sound.
Unfortunately, we couldn't quite get the LEDs to light how we wanted them too. I'll post the code and assembly soon if someone wants to replicate this at home.
The idea is, this sensor would be mounted on the front of the moving car/robot. Should something go wrong, like the controller starts to malfunction and the robot steers too close to a wall (or some innocent person's leg), the arduino would "kill" the robot's motors and it should stop.
Next week, we'll start work on something quite entertaining: the "Angry Girlfriend...."
Unfortunately, we couldn't quite get the LEDs to light how we wanted them too. I'll post the code and assembly soon if someone wants to replicate this at home.
The idea is, this sensor would be mounted on the front of the moving car/robot. Should something go wrong, like the controller starts to malfunction and the robot steers too close to a wall (or some innocent person's leg), the arduino would "kill" the robot's motors and it should stop.
Next week, we'll start work on something quite entertaining: the "Angry Girlfriend...."