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picaxe 8m: Wall Follower Mouse gets Majorly Modded      ...     5851 Views
Author's name: WeRbots       Author's ratings = 0

Take a PicAxe brain, add an infrared "whisker" and a motor controller, transplant to an existing wall follower robot and you have:

"CRAZY Mouse Bot on Steroids!"

For the issues and tricks, here`s what I did:

* Mount the Power Transistors right down at the motors, if you bend them like wings, you can connect to their bases and feed power directly from the on/off switch
* With the batteries I`m using AA-1700 mah, you have to turn off brown out protection to allow the processor to go under 3 and 1/2 volts or so, you also need to keep the batteries fresh
* The four battery clip is a little large and collides with the top of the back, shim it in the back so it leans forward, that works.

That`s it!!

Have fun programming your MouseBot!!!
Author's Assigned Keywords:    Robots    BEAM Robots    picAxe    robotics    picAxe 08m


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Do It Yourself Parts Used To Create This Project.

- PARTS LIST -

Wall Hugging Mouse
Mfr: Tamiya
Price $20
PN-SKU: 70068
Vendor: Tamiyausa




picAxe 08m
Mfr: MicroChip
Price $3
PN-SKU: COM-08308
Vendor: SparkFun



 

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