Archive for July, 2003

MicroRover

Thursday, July 31st, 2003

To date, this is my most successful design. It is powered by an Atmel 8535, which means you can write fairly complex applications (8Kb flash). It has 4 tactical sensors, two eyes based on LDR resistors placed in a tube to have directional sensory, one RC5 Ir diode to be able to command the [...]

NanoRover

Saturday, July 19th, 2003

This is one of the most unconventional designs I’ve build up to date. It does not run straight, but crawls. The reason for this is that both motors are unidirectional. It uses two wristwatch lavet-type motors as it main actuators and uses two whiskers and two directional LDR light sensors for sensing it’s environment. The [...]