How to make a robot under $40

(THIS WAS MADE BY FRITSL BUT I POSTED IT)

This is the most affordable robot out there! This robot is very smart and if you have extra doe than you can have lots of them. these robots like to ineract with each other.



I GOT THE VIDEO!!!

Step 1 Get the stuff

The objects you need are:

AXE023 x1

USB Download cable x1

programming editor (free) x1

5V voltage regulater x1

"bumper-switches" x2

moters and wheels

(2 moters and 2 wheels)

Comments

[admin]

This project looks awesome but there isn't enough documentation of you actually making it to be a full Instructable. There are two things which you could do. 1) If you happen to have images of you making your project you can create some more steps, add those additional photos into your Instructable and then republish your Instructable. 2) If you don't have any more pictures of you working on your project, that's ok too. That just means that your project is better suited to be submitted as a slideshow. Your images are already in your library, and you can use the same text that you have already written for your Instructable so it should only take a few minutes to create your slideshow and show the world what you made! Thanks for your submission and let me know if you have any questions along the way.

[fritsl]

Erh.. Huh?

I am glad that you like the robot.. It is actually made by me, and featured here: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/87

It was not posted here by me, though. If I get the time I will post it in here as well, but so far I have not really made an instructable for it :)

[coolz]

why do you need documentation of you actually making it

[Mattrox]

wow great job this is great for the robotically challenged like me.

[meming]

I wasent the one ho made this it was fritsl gut I liked it so much that i posted it

[fritsl]

Hey, that´s cool by me :D I am flattered, thanks :)

[fritsl]

what's the problem with this editor, you should have someone to fix it! (Firefox, PC, making stupid characters that wasn't made by me. And the "bold" function also makes a mess if you try to bold several lines etc.. NOW this post i bananas, 100% off topic, sorry!

[nigel da nautilus]

Sue him SUE HIM he stole your idea MAKE HIM PAY!!!!!! sorry i get carried away sometimes

[nigel da nautilus]

awesome instructable. i made a lil robot using a pic 16f182, unfortunately its kinda dead, im not sure why but i cant really be bothered to fix it, oh well

[Kryptonite]

For any one that hasn't seen it yet, check out Fritsl 's latest Instructable!

[finnrambo]

$#@! AWESOME

[Ezsynn]

Hmm... I've got a way to cheapen it even more!!!
If you want to program the bot, by all means build it as the Instructable tells you to.
But if you just want to just let it rip around bumping and dodging, you can actually save money by using transistors instead of the PIC MCU shown.
=D.
People are actually building this type of bot without MCU's. Only transistors...

Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAATI2VOjlU&feature=channel_page

WARNING: Bad Music taste alert! (That guy's my youtube friend)

[norsehorse]

Are you kidding me?? Daft Punk is amazing! :P

[geek dax]

what is a axeo23

[coatesy900]

click the link and find out.

[spicerrules]

do you use the code in linux, Microsoft C++ or what? T.Y.

[Xellers]

The only problem with using a microcontroller for this project is that it would be much easier and cheaper to wire up a simple circuit that would do this for you. And for that matter, it would still be cheaper and easier to wire up an opamp to and some photodiodes to make it follow light. And also note that when using a microcontroller, it is important to post a code and to explain how to use it.

[botmaster 10]

Cool!

[BOMBOMBOMB]

i know how to improve this :P... Stick some spiky stuff on it and a nail shooter :P Robot wars woot woot!!!

[Ianic]

What exactly does his robot do?

[coolketan95]

actually it changes its direction when hit with an object

[coolketan95]

Heres The Code

symbol fw = 20
symbol bc = 200

b0= 175

'

dav:
random w5

for w3 = 0 to w5
if pin3 = 1 then
gosub bum
end if
next w3

b0= b0 +1
random w5
if b0 < w5 then goto hest

random w5
if w5 > fw then
high 1 low 0'ForwardRight
endif

random w5
if w5 > fw then
high 4 low 2'ForwardLeft
endif

hest:

random w5
if w5 > bc then
high 2 low 4'ReverseLeft
endif

random w5
if w5 > bc then
high 0 low 1'ReverseRight
endif

goto dav

bum:
w4 = 32212
return

high 2 low 4 high 0 low 1'Reverse
pause 300
if b0 > 175 then
high 1 low 0'ForwardRight
high 2 low 4'ReverseLeft
else
high 4 low 2'ForwardLeft
high 0 low 1'ReverseRight
end if
pause 300

b0 = 175
return

[GorillazMiko]

This actually looks pretty cool. But, I MYSELF thinks there should be a bit more... it seems to be lacking some stuff somehow. But it's still awesome!

[botmaster 10]

Yeah, an arm

[meming]

thanks, im still working on my robot myself thats probobly why its lacking some information.