Rug Warrior Pi: Build Blog (a PiDA bot)
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:02 pm
Bill requested that I blog about my bot upgrade project in the forum. (It will be Pi Droid Alpha based.)
Bot Name: Rug Warrior Pi or PiGo
Bot Size: 7 inches round, roughly 7" tall
Bot Environment: Home - Indoors
Bot Surface Range: Wood and tile floors, plush carpet (no shag)
Project Type: Upgrade processing and sensor capabilities of 15 year old Rug Warrior Pro (RWP) robot
Background: "Pogo" is my current Rug Warrior Pro robot, and needs a total craniotomy. There is only so much I could program in 32k bytes of interpreted C over a small assembly language boot-loaded library, running on a 2 MHz clocked 8bit HC6811 uController. This is Pogo:
(If image doesn't show: https://flic.kr/p/wdXoau )
I'll add to this thread along the way.
Bot Name: Rug Warrior Pi or PiGo
Bot Size: 7 inches round, roughly 7" tall
Bot Environment: Home - Indoors
Bot Surface Range: Wood and tile floors, plush carpet (no shag)
Project Type: Upgrade processing and sensor capabilities of 15 year old Rug Warrior Pro (RWP) robot
Background: "Pogo" is my current Rug Warrior Pro robot, and needs a total craniotomy. There is only so much I could program in 32k bytes of interpreted C over a small assembly language boot-loaded library, running on a 2 MHz clocked 8bit HC6811 uController. This is Pogo:
(If image doesn't show: https://flic.kr/p/wdXoau )
I'll add to this thread along the way.