I recently started going back to projects I did a few years ago. The obstacle avoiding robot was my very first Arduino project, but looking at it on the shelf in my robot workshop, I felt that it had to be more pleasing to the eye. It really was a […]
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A short Saturday side project I made this for fun on a Saturday morning. The parts I used were all from my recycle box, except for the digital line tracker sensor boards. If you want to make a similar project, it is quite easy and you can use almost any […]
The Next Level challenge also has a programming challenge part. I did a practice run on programming in the living room today. I wrote a fairly simple little program for the Flex robot to go pick up a hub, deliver it on a little mat and return to the starting […]
This was my first Arduino project. As you probably can see from the photos, I still needed to learn a lot of things about building robots at that time. For instance, the lead acid battery I chose was the wrong kind of battery for Arduino and also too heavy. Anyway […]
The original Flex from the VEX IQ website. It is suggested as the best robot chassis to use for the 2018-2019 Vex IQ Next level Challenge. We built this robot from the instructions on the website, but found it lacking a some areas: 1: The hook design didn’t allow for […]