Robot's control board - how to?

I would suggest looking at one of:
   1. The MAVRIC-IIB (http://www.bdmicro.com/ )
   2. The Iso-Pod or Servo-Pod (http://www.newmicros.com/ )
   3. The Gumstix Robostix combo (http://www.gumstix.com/ )

For a radio modem, I'd check out Spark Fun Electronics
(http://wwww.sparkfun.com/ )
--
D. Jay Newman
http://enerd.ws/robots/

"D. Jay Newman"

Excellent site! The modular cell phones are awesome!

One "w" too many though.

Padu

Thank you all for the answers. I love sparkfun - these guys have some
cool ideas :)

Merlin

There are many ways, of course. I would use a PIC 16F877 or 876 on an
Olimex board that has the serial circuit built for you. Very cheap at
www.sparkfun.com. I would program it with the CCS C compiler. That
makes serial interface to a PC very easy.

BRW


On 20 Sep 2005 10:47:08 -0700, kolinko@gmail.com wrote:

   That's what I'm using.  :-)  I've recently replaced the 16F877 with
an 18F4620 though, which of course works perfectly well in the same
Olimex 40 pin protoboard as the 16F877.

   For programming, I use Proton+ - relatively expensive, but it produces
nice, tight code, and is constantly being updated for the newest
PICs - much more so than some other compiler manufacturers I can name.  ;-)
It has built in commands for anything you'd want - PWM, GLCDs, USB,
servo control, USARTS, etc.  Amazing piece of work, and you can get a
robot up and running in no time at all.  My current base has ultrasonic
and IR sensors, a keypad for on-board programming and control, LCD, etc.
All controlled by less than 100 lines of code.  The Mikroelektronika
compilers look nice too, but my experience is that their demos, at
least, generate pretty crappy code, and have numerous bugs that
even generate incorrect code for several PICs.  On the other hand,
the simulator is nice.

   But, best of all, Microchip's sample store will get you all the free
PIC's you could ever want.  They don't complain even when I say that
I'm just a hobbyist who will not be doing any production purchases.

- Rich


  

Thanks for the great info. I'll check out Proton+.

BRW