Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Automonous Bot: Arduino, Ardumoto board, and the Dagu Magician Chassis
Late am I with this posting, but life gets in the way and takes over. The Little Weed wanted to delve into robotics, so we bought an Arduino Uno and the Dagu Magician Chassis. This chassis is a robot platform for a three wheeled vehicle, complete with two wheels and two motors, a single ball caster, and all the nuts and bolts to put it together. Programming of the robot is done with the Arduino IDE or in Eclipse. This posting steps you through our experience putting together this robot platform.
Tags: Arduino, Arduino IDE, Ardumoto, autonomous, battery pack, beginner, bot, car, caster, Dagu, DG007, DG01D.motor, H-Brodge, Kids, L293D, Magician Chassis, physical computing, platform, robot, robotics, sensors, spacers, speed board holders.motor, vehicle, wheel
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Saturday, April 21st, 2012
There is a whole lot of information on the internet about using the Arduino with Eclipse on Xubuntu 10.04 LTS, much of it out of date. Here I document my experience in the hope that this process becomes more smooth.
I followed documentation from a couple of very key people, which helped a lot. Still, there are certain issues that threw me off. I have added my experiences where I had issues. The Arduino IDE is the standard method to connect to and program the Arduino. It is simple to use. If you want a more rich programming environment you can also use Eclipse, with the Arduino plugin. Either method can be used to program and run the Arduino. Here are the steps:
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Tags: 10.04, Arduino, Arduino IDE, Arduino plugin, baeyens.it, Eclipse, install, LTS, ttyACM0, ubuntu, USB, Xubuntu
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