Laser Following Microbric Viper Robot
I've been playing around with the Microbric Viper robot construction
kit over the last couple of days. The Viper uses a Basic Atom
microcontroller which can be programmed in BASIC. These robots can
also be controlled with a computer using an IR transmitter. I'm using
an Iguanaworks IR tranceiver which works with a serial port for my
projects.
Well, since I love webcams, I decided to turn my Viper into a simple
laser following robot! I've mounted a small wireless webcam on top of
the robot. The webcam, transmits video to my computer. My computer
determines the position of the laser in the camera's field of view and
tries to move the robot towards it. As far as the software is
concerned, I'm using a modified version of my Autonomous RC Car code.
Watch the video above. I think the next step could be to mount the
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