PARTS Projects

Hi, welcome to my PARTS page.  I’ll share various presentations I’ve given, information about my robots, and other fun stuff.

Presentations:

• How to Download ‘Bot Code, PARTS meeting 8/2/2003
• PIC Micros in Robots, PARTS meeting, 9/6/2003
• Ugobe Draco, PARTS meeting, 4/1/2006
• Pleo and the LifeOS, PARTS meeting, 12/1/2007

My Robots:

• Cloverbot
  tricycle steered robot with 68hc11 controller, closed loop speed and steering control, IR remote-control obstacle sensors, speech synthesizer
• Trashbot
  cylindrical robot with laser cut frame, high resolution encoders, large wheels, two casters with suspension, servo-articulated lid, transh can outer skin
• Lil’PICcy
  micro sumo, using custom PIC controller with TI SN754410 motor driver, two hacked microservos, hand made wheels, dual lithium batteries, three line sensors, two IS471F object sensors; ran 4 different robot programs, including sumo, line following, wall following, and avoider
• PICaPek
  second version of Lil’PICcy; better motors, additional Sharp IR ranger
• Stellaluna
  mini sumo with high torque, fast standard size servos, wheels made from inkjet printer paper feed wheels, 3P2S lithium cell pack, Mr. Robot-brand analog output sonar ranger, Lil’PICcy controller board
• AD1519
  SRS RoboMagellan entry for 2005 PDXBOT
• AwOL
• LineDiviner
• MyBot
• Wiggles
• RedHex
• RogueBlue
• Viper
• Pleo(!)

Cool links:

Hizook!: excellent robotics blog by a Georgia Tech graduate student

Robots.net: a great source of up to date robotics news