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Parallax Boe-Bot Student Manual (360 pages)
Brand:
Parallax
| Category:
Robotics
| Size: 4 MB
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
5
Chapter 1: Your Boe-Bot's Brain
15
Hardware and Software
16
Activity #1: Getting the Software
18
Preface
19
Foreword
19
Audience
20
Support and Discussion Groups
20
The Stamps in Class Curriculum
21
Foreign Translations
22
Special Contributors
22
Activity #2: Installing the Software
24
Activity #3: Setting up the Hardware and Testing the System
27
Activity #4: Your First Program
36
Activity #5: Looking up Answers
44
Activity #6: Introducing ASCII Code
47
Activity #7: When You're Done
49
Summary
51
Chapter 2: Your Boe-Bot's Servo Motors
55
Introducing the Continuous Rotation Servo
55
Activity #1: How to Track Time and Repeat Actions
56
Activity #2: Tracking Time and Repeating Actions with Acircuit
59
Activity #3: Connecting the Servo Motors
72
Activity #4: Centering the Servos
80
Activity #5: How to Store Values and Count
85
Activity #6: Testing the Servos
89
Summary
100
Chapter 3: Assemble and Test Your Boe-Bot
105
Activity #1: Assembling the Boe-Bot
105
Activity #2: Re-Test the Servos
115
Activity #3: Start/Reset Indicator Circuit and Program
119
Activity #4: Testing Speed Control with the Debug Terminal
125
Summary
132
Chapter 4: Boe-Bot Navigation
137
Activity #1: Basic Boe-Bot Maneuvers
137
Activity #2: Tuning the Basic Maneuvers
143
Activity #3: Calculating Distances
146
Activity #4: Maneuvers - Ramping
151
Activity #5: Simplify Navigation with Subroutines
154
Activity #6: Building Complex Maneuvers in EEPROM
160
Summary
171
Chapter 5: Tactile Navigation with Whiskers
179
Tactile Navigation
179
Activity #1: Building and Testing the Whiskers
180
Activity #2: Field Testing the Whiskers
188
Activity #3: Navigation with Whiskers
191
Activity #4: Artificial Intelligence and Deciding When You're Stuck
196
Summary
202
Chapter 6: Light Sensitive Navigation with Photoresistors
207
Introducing the Photoresistor
207
Activity #1: Building and Testing Photoresistor Circuits
208
Activity #2: Roam and Avoid Shadows Like Objects
214
Activity #3: a more Responsive Shadow Controlled Boe-Bot
217
Activity #4: Getting more Information from Your Photoresistors
219
Activity #5: Flashlight Beam Following Boe-Bot
224
Activity #6: Roaming Toward the Light
233
Summary
241
Chapter 7: Navigating with Infrared Headlights
249
Using Infrared Headlights to See the Road
249
Activity #1: Building and Testing the IR Pairs
251
Activity #2: Field Testing for Object Detection and Infrared Interference
256
Activity #3: Infrared Detection Range Adjustments
261
Activity #4: Object Detection and Avoidance
263
Activity #5: High Performance IR Navigation
266
Activity #6: the Drop-Off Detector
269
Summary
276
Chapter 8: Robot Control with Distance Detection
283
Determining Distance with the same IR Led/Detector Circuit
283
Activity #1: Testing the Frequency Sweep
283
Activity #2: Boe-Bot Shadow Vehicle
291
Activity #3: Following a Stripe
300
Summary
308
Appendix A: PC to BASIC Stamp Communication Trouble-Shooting
315
Appendix B: BASIC Stamp and Carrier Board Components and Features
319
Appendix C: Resistor Color Codes
323
Appendix D: Breadboarding Rules
325
Appendix E: Boe-Bot Parts Lists
331
Appendix F: Balancing Photoresistors
335
Appendix G: Tuning IR Distance Detection
343
Appendix H: Boe-Bot Navigation Contests
349
Index
353
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Parallax Boe-Bot Assembly (78 pages)
Mini-Sumo Robotics Assembly Documentation and Programming
Brand:
Parallax
| Category:
Robotics
| Size: 0 MB
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
5
Preface
7
Recognitions
7
Audience
8
Educational Concepts from the Sumobot
8
Chapter 1: Assemble the Sumobot
11
Let's Build the Sumobot
12
Tools Required
12
About the Parts in the Sumobot Kit
12
Chapter 2: Sumobot Locomotion
21
How a Servo Works
21
Time Measurement and Voltage Levels
21
Sumobot Motion Test
26
Challenge Yourself
31
Chapter 3: Sumobot Sensors and Border Detection
33
Line Sensor Theory
33
Our First Operational Sumo Program
39
Challenge Yourself
44
Chapter 4: Infrared Object Detection
45
Infrared Headlights
45
The FREQOUT Trick
46
Installing and Testing the IR Emitters/Detectors
47
Testing the IR Pairs
49
Sumobot Motion Control
51
Chapter 5: Basic Competition Code
55
Final Competition Notes
62
Appendix A: Sumobot Parts List
63
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