Posts with «pc» label

Interfacing yor robot to your PC using Gobetwenio (can work with any MCU)

I am currently working on a project where I need to teach my robot to "see" using an ultrasound sensor. In particular it must find and collect drink cans on a playfield and return them to a specific location.

To make the programming easier I wanted to take the sensor output from the robot and display it on the computer as a chart. As I am a terrible programmer I did a quick google search and came up with Gobetwenio.

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Let's Make Robots 30 Apr 04:09
arduino  computer  gobetwenio  interface  laptop  pc  picaxe  programming  serial  

Fancontroller

Right, back again with an update on my idea for a kick-ass fanctroller.

So far, I've been coding away and right now, I'm up to the point where the actual fan control is implemented (I've already written the LCD-commands, several input functions, a setup and a menu.) But I'm having some problems.

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Let's Make Robots 16 Apr 18:12
arduino  computer  controller  cooling  fan  pc  pump  rpm  speed  water  

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Let's Make Robots 01 Jan 00:00
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