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1. Get to Know your Robot
1．Key Points
You will learn：
*Recognize every component of the car
*How to use Arduino IDE and finish some preparation work
Equipment needed：
*MiniQ II （with batteries）
*USB cable
2．Introduction
First of all，congratulations to you for getting such an attractive robot. This is an interesting
and fully functioning robot，at the same time, it also can help you learn Arduino well. You can
realize your idea like hunting the light or transport drink and orientation recognition and so on.
Now, let's have a look at our robot：
1)
Front view of MiniQ II
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- Page 1 Arduino well. You can realize your idea like hunting the light or transport drink and orientation recognition and so on. Now, let’s have a look at our robot： Front view of MiniQ II...
- Page 2 LEDs on the bottom of MiniQ II Components on the car： Components and their locations...
- Page 3 Line tracking sensor The front view of the robot Function about every component： 1. Infrared transmitter：transmit the infrared signal, the signal can be used for detecting obstacles 2. Photosensitive diode：sensitive with the light, so it can help you get some information about the light 3.
- Page 4 Download page You should download the right version to fit your system of your computer, take windows for example： if you finish the download and open the software, you will see： ArduinoIDE OK，connect miniQ to your computer，...
- Page 5 Connect to your computer Press the power button， you will see the leds on the bottom of the MiniQ will be ligthed, this shows that the robot gets power successfully Next step，install the driver. Open the device manager:Right click my ComputerPropertiesDevice Manger Open device manager You will see：...
- Page 6 Unknow device It shows we need to install its driver, you can install it by windows itself but it is faster do it yourself, right click Arduino LeonardoBrowse my computer for driver softwareC:\arduino-1.0.4-windows\arduino-1.0.4\driversNext，you will finish the installing. 10) Install the driver...
- Page 7 After the action above, open the Arduino IDE, you will see: 11) Arduino Serial Port Click “Tools”“Board” to choose”Leonardo”, and “Tools””Serial Port” to choose the port. Now，open the file“ObstacleAvoidance.ino”, 12) You need to open this folder...
- Page 8 13) Program has bee opened Click the upload button and wait for the the message below.
- Page 9 Download Button Download Successfully 14) Program upload Well, take off the USB cable, put your robot on the ground and see what will happen, it avoid the obstalce itself, doesn’t it? 4.Pin Map of Connecting Line follow sensor： A0--IR0 （No.1 count from the left） A1--IR1 （No.2 count from the left）...
- Page 10 left transmitter sensor Transmitter：D13—IRL D8—IRR right transmitter sensor Receiver: D17—IRS receiver sensor Receiver：IRS--D17 Button：D4 Encoder： D0--INT2 Right Motor D1--INT3 Left Motor Buzzer D16—MOSI—Buzzer...
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