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Idea Name:
Somethin-vore Rotato
Overview:
Stationary guy who rotates in search of somethin' and then locks on
to strongest source of whatever somethin' he is vore-ing.
Concepts/Skills:
Mainly there's two basic concepts to this one.
The first is to be able to control a servo or stepper motor. The next is the target tracking module.
Description:
This is a simple guy that, unlike most of these other ideas,
I actually may build. He'll just be a servo or stepper that can rotate 360 and
it'll lock onto something that gives him the strongest signal. That's what "Somethin-vore" means, I don't know what I'll have him chase after, could be IR or temperature
or light or sound or object proximity. He'll probably be a test-bed for my target acquistion and tracking on a mini-sumo.
I'll make the "somethin-vore" part be modular, so I can just plug in different modules to change what he "-vore's", be it light, obstacles, temperature, sound, etc. The target tracking logic will be independent from the motor control/brains. Hopefully the concept will become something I use in the future for more complex robots. By designing a module that just provides some advice to a microcontroller, i can then put together a bunch of different modules like that and then have the microcontroller prioritize them and achieve some overall goals. If I dress this guy up with a funny costume like a monkey-head mask, he will be more fun, I'm thinking about gutting a Jack-in-the-Box for this instead of a monkey-head mask. Mainly he would need three sensors of whatever flavor I want him to track and some comparators. Throw in a microcontroller and maybe a compass (although you could just count steps you've moved since the last lock on) so he'll remember the coordinates he last locked onto incase he looses lock on a target. |
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