My OperaMALaD (3pi)
Friday, March 27, 2009 8:07:45 PM
This is the newest addition to the family. MALaD is a 3pi robot from Pololu and it is awesome. It's specialty is in using line following and maze solving algorithms to solve those problems -- both of which i have tried and successfully tested using both C and the C++ programming languages.
The 3pi robot makes a great platform for people with C programming experience to learn robotics, and it is a fun environment for ambitious beginners to learn C programming. At its heart is an Atmel ATmega168 microcontroller running at 20 MHz with 16KB of flash program memory and 1KB data memory, enough space to run complicated programs. An extra 512 bytes of persistent flash memory is provided on the microcontroller for data logging or long-term learning applications. The popular, free GNU C/C++ compiler works perfectly with the 3pi, Atmel’s AVR Studio provides a comfortable development environment, and an extensive set of libraries provided by Pololu makes it a breeze to interface with all of the integrated hardware. The 3pi is also compatible with the popular Arduino development platform. We provide a number of sample programs to show how to use the various 3pi components, as well as how to perform more complex behaviors such as line following and maze solving.
Here he is on a simple line-following task using the NXT line map. i will post a video of him solving a maze, a very crude maze, that i designed. As crude as the maze is, the task was still accomplished successfully.
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