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Step 6Brains!
The brainboard is pretty darn simple, so you're gonna have to pardon my sketchy circuit diagram.
Beacuse it uses servos, there's no need for complicated motor drivers or what-have-you. Simply hook up +3.6 volts and ground (straight from the battery) to run the motors, and hit them with a pulse-width modulated signal from the microcontroller to tell them where to go.
(See the wikipedia servo page if you're new to using servomotors.)
I cut up a piece of drilled blank pcb stuff, and super-glued headers onto it. Two 3-pin headers for the servos, one 2-pin header for the battery, one 5-pin header for my AVR programmer (which I should make an instructable for someday), and the 28-pin socket for the ATMega 8 chip.
Once all the sockets and headers were glued on, I soldered them up. Most of the wiring is on the underside of the board. It's really just a few wires.
Beacuse it uses servos, there's no need for complicated motor drivers or what-have-you. Simply hook up +3.6 volts and ground (straight from the battery) to run the motors, and hit them with a pulse-width modulated signal from the microcontroller to tell them where to go.
(See the wikipedia servo page if you're new to using servomotors.)
I cut up a piece of drilled blank pcb stuff, and super-glued headers onto it. Two 3-pin headers for the servos, one 2-pin header for the battery, one 5-pin header for my AVR programmer (which I should make an instructable for someday), and the 28-pin socket for the ATMega 8 chip.
Once all the sockets and headers were glued on, I soldered them up. Most of the wiring is on the underside of the board. It's really just a few wires.
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diffrent programmer and stuff.
you could probably use a pic12f* for this project it only used 2 pins ?
12f costs about 2$ for one of the 8 legged ones. the authors code wont work with pic you will be forced to do your own pic ASM