2013 Fall Mobot Tutorial¶
What is mobot? http://www.cs.cmu.edu/mobot/
Syllabus¶
Week 1: Basic Electronics¶
- Form teams
- Overview
- Mobot
- RoboClub
- Gather supplies
- Basic Electronics
- Voltage, current, resistance
- Resistors
- Capacitors
- Motors
- H-bridge
- Arduino hardware (what is a microprocessor)
- IR line sensors
- Build with Arduino: Blink LED, Button controlled LED, Potentiometer controlled LED
- Tour, example bots
- Homework
- Shop training
- Order any supplies needed
- Designs
Week 2: Design and Electronic Construction¶
- H-bridge: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn754410.pdf
- H-bridge example: http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/DCMotorControl
- Line-sensors: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9453
- Assemble sensors and motors
- Brief tutorial on soldering
- Continued lesson on electronics (what wasn't completed last time)
- Design how car will be assembled
- Show off designs (show and tell)
- Do at beginning
- Do for all classes
- Homework
- Download Arduino
- Bring laptop per group
Week 3: Arduino Code¶
- Electronics Check Off (at beginning)
- Building session
- Test sensors
- Programming
- Variables
- Conditionals
- Iteration
- Debugging (Serial)
Week 4¶
- Finish vehicles
Useful Links¶
Infrared Line Following: http://www.buildcircuit.com/easystepsformakingalinefollowingrobotusinginfraredledphotodiodeardumotoandarduino/
highly detailed pdf on making an rc car with arduino for $100: http://eecs.richardnelson.com/CpE/LineFollowingCar/Report/LineFollowingCar.pdf
society of mobots info, has many links, actually has ALL the links: http://www.societyofrobots.com/competitions_mobot.shtml
Speed Controller Tutorial: http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Tutorials/HighCurrentLoads
CMUCam: http://www.cmucam.org/projects/cmucam4/wiki/Mobot
Prior mobot: https://sites.google.com/site/theelectronbazaar/home/projects/mobot
Nishant (who showed us his mobot) andrewID: npol
Materials¶
RC car
Arduino
Ardunio USB programming cord
H-bridge
3 line sensors
Wire
DIP holder for h-bridge
Board for h-bridge
Soldering tools
Batteries
Tutorial Planning¶
Get a group together to help teach. Mobot sponsored the supplies. We ran it for 4 weeks at the beginning of the semester with 2 teachers. Run the sessions right after GB so as to get people involved and talk to Mobot over fthe summer for sponsorship.