This robot can be managed from the terminal window of your computer. You can see a manilla-colored board mounted between the wheels. This is the RF receiver which has rather a long antenna that we’ve cropped out to get a much better look at the bot itself. [Ashish] chosen up an RF transmitter/receiver pair for about $4 as well as after the break you can view him walk us with the technique he’s utilizing for control.
First off, he had to discover a method to interface the transmitter with his computer. He chose to utilize an Arduino since sending data to it from the computer is as easy as composing to /dev/ttyUSB0. The Arduino sketch just listens for incoming characters on the serial connection as well as pushes them over the RF transmitter.
We like his advancement methods. In the video he shows the command syntax utilized to drive as well as stop the robot. when he figured that out he composed a shell script to send the bot on a preprogrammed square path. From there a bit much more coding would provide him real-time manage which might be prolonged to something like a web-based interface for smartphone control.
Oh, as well as if you’re wondering about the bot itself it’s a set robot which typically utilizes IR control. [Ashish] upgraded to RF because it doesn’t need line-of-sight to work.
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