The dream was to build Johnny #5 from the movie short circuit to go trick-or-treating with us. However we’ll be happy with a smaller version. First step was to find a wheeled base. We looked a snowblower tracks but they were pretty big and expensive. We found a fun little robot from Pololu that showed promise. It took us a while to figure out how to adjust the PWM on the Intel Edison board to work. The Arduino Uno worked much easier. The robot had some fun programs available to download, like a line following routine. We put black electrical tape all over the floor and watched it follow it all over. We want to maybe build a Sumo ring or a maze in the future. In the meantime we added a small OLED display for fun.
- Zumo chassis kit (no motors) from Pololu
- 75:1 micro motor with extended motor shaft from Pololu
- Zumo shield for Arduino, v1.2 from Pololu
- Basic sumo blade for Zumo hassis from Pololu
- Zumo reflectance sensor rray from Pololu
- Intel Edison Ardiuno or Arduino Uno
- pin extensions for Edison board
- 0.96″ I2C IIC Serial 128X64 LED OLED LCD Display Module for Arduino from eBay
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