A couple of months ago I started building a line following robot, I named it Volga The plan was to draw a small track and plot it out on a large piece of paper and make a robot that could follow the track. In this case the plan was successful as tonight my little robot [...]
I’ve started a new project, another “robot” and I’m going to name it Volga. When I was drawing a track in Autocad for the robot to follow I thought it looked like a river And it’s made up of cheap parts just like those Russian cars. This will be a simple line following robot, and [...]
Played with a TCRT5000 sensor today. When I last tried these cheap little sensors I found out that they are very sensitive to ambient light. I always test my electronics on a breadboard, about a meter above it hangs a 40W halogen lamp. I got very different results when I turned of the lamp. So [...]
I nearly forgot I bought these little sensors. The TCRT5000 is a reflective infrared sensor, it’s a small plastic holder with an IR led and a photo transistor. The IR led emits invisible IR light, when an object is placed in front of it the light is bounced back to the phototransistor. The TCRT5000 has [...]
