Category Archives: Line Following

Videos from the CNRG/Ottawa Robot Games 2011

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

I finally finished uploading all the CNRG/ORE Robot Games videos to Youtube! Time Lapse of the entire event: MiniSumo Line Racing Part 1 Line Racing Part 1 Line Following Levels 1 and 2 Line Following Level 3 Line Following Level … Continue reading →

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CNRG/ORE Ottawa Robot Games 2011 were awesome!

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Wow!!!!! Saturday went fast! I had tons of fun. Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to the volunteers that came out today to help me along (Rob, Norm, Albert and Luc!). Thanks to everyone that came … Continue reading →

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Building wheels for line followers

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

The LineORE line followers come with a 36mm wheels made from sintra and an o-ring. Depending on the motor gear ratio used in the particular robot, that gives up to around 80cm/s. That’s pretty peppy for the line following and … Continue reading →

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CNRG/ORE Robot games website is live!

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

The Ottawa Robotics Enthusiast (O.R.E) group will be hosting a Canadian National Robot Games Regional competition on June 11th, 2011, in the Arts Court “Library”. The competition will be held at Arts Court, starting at 10am until 4pm. The event … 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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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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Playing with PID

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

So, my basic plan for line following is to get the robot moving as quickly as possible on a regular line, and then try to make it deal with all the nasty business (gaps in the lines, acute angles, etc…) … 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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