One of the Battery packs to be used to power my robot. This one is a 7.2V battery pack used for most remote controlled cars.
One of the Battery packs to be used to power my robot. This one is a 7.2V battery pack used for most remote controlled cars.
Communications board to connect the TJPRO board to the computer for programming. Pre-assembled RS232 programming board.
Main robot board providing computing power. A MTJPRO11 available from Mekatronix. Based around a 68HC11 processor with 32kbytes of ram, 8 analog inputs, voltage regulator, and easy access ports.
The robot board with swtithes, power and other components attached. Basic prototyping connections (switches and communication board)
Side view of the body.
View of the bottom.
Main body disk.
View of the back or front.
A 3/4 view of the robot body.
One view of the robot main body.
Another view.
Motion detector circuit (insides).
Hacked version of the motion detector. With no documentation on this module I was forced to search for the appropriate desired response. The unit as a whole was made to be set off once when a heat source was found, then would have to be manually reset by powering down. Through trial and error I found a pin on one of the chips that recieved the pure voltage levels from the sensor. This varied the voltage based on the existance of heat or not. Through later trials I found these boards/sensors to be very sensitive and not very reliable for my hacked use of them.
IR sensor modification. Based on an IMDL modification to create an analog signal instead of a digital one.
Front view of preliminary setup.
3/4 view of preliminary setup.
What's under the hood in the preliminary setup.