Author Archives: Aaron Ramsey

Back to the SumoORE chassis

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Made some updates to the SumoORE chassis today. I moved the front blade out flush at the front, shaved a bit off the back, cut some openings at the back for the rear IR. Instead of black like the first … Continue reading →

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Working on sumoORE pcbs

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Received the sumoORE pcbs from Seeedstudio finally so I’m working on building up a test platform with PCB and base. Assembly of the pcbs went pretty good. Lots of wide open space on these guys. Schematics and details can be … Continue reading →

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2011 Firefighting competition at Trinity College

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Me and a couple of other O.R.E. members spent the weekend in Hartford, Connecticut at the Trinity Firefighting Competition. It was my 8th year attending. Wow, time flies. As always, it was a blast. There is some sort of geek … Continue reading →

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Line Maze Solver

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Playing with turning my line follower into a maze solver for the robot games in Ottawa. Took a little video of it running a maze. Its all pretty basic right now… just following the ‘left wall’ algorithm… takes every left … Continue reading →

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Moxie M38-360 continuous servo for minisumo

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Received my Moxie continuous servos from lowpricerc.com last night and took a quick look at them. Pretty decent little things for $3.40! Metal bushing on the output shaft, decently fast and reasonably torquey. Construction inside was not too bad… no … Continue reading →

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iTeadstudio PCB service thoughts

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

I’ve been following some discussion between the guy at EEVblog and iTeadstudio about their PCBs and the quality. EEVblog is one of the guys that I follow on twitter (@eevblog). I follow iTeadstudio also, but they post pretty infrequently (@ITeadstudio). … Continue reading →

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Thinking about mini sumos

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

I drew up a quick design in QCad and cut it out of sintra this afternoon to see how it would work to create a little snap together minisumo frame. The idea is that the batteries and motors are held … Continue reading →

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More Line Followers ready

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Had a little time this weekend so I finished putting those line followers together. I’ll be out of motors and some other components after this batch, so I’m going to move on to sumo robots next. I took a few … Continue reading →

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Line follower production line

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Time to get more of these line followers out in the wild. I’ve got 5 sets of motors left so I’m building up 4 of the 18F25K22 versions and 1 more of the 28X2 PICAXE versions. Hopefully that will be … Continue reading →

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Line Follower Videos

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Three little line follower…. 2 of the PICAXE 28X2 variety and 1 of the raw PIC18F25K22 sort. They are just running the default demo code. They were released out in the wild soon after this video. Hopefully we will see … Continue reading →

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