Category: Robotics

BeagleBot – Beagle powered robot

“For measuring distances I chose to use SRF08. It is an ultrasonic ranger with I2C bus and measure range from 3 cm to 6 m. The sensor has a beam width of 55 degrees...

Accelerometers in Robots and Moving Things

An accelerometer is a device that measures non-gravitational accelerations. These are accelerations produced by mechanically accelerating the accelerometer via its casing. – Accelerometer Wikipedia Sci-Spot.com – Accelerometer – An accelerometer is a device which...

Make a Encoder for your Bot

Need some help here. I want to build a cheap wheel encoder by myself. Now, my idea was to use a photodiode and a LED. What i don’t know is how to use the...