I'm planning on making a section specifically for members where they can download useful ebook guides to creating robots and other projects and also where they can download the programs for controlling their RC car without the need to create the form and compile it them selves.
What do you think, would it help?
I have plans to create a store on Ozirocks Projects, it will have a number of useful components for your robotics projects including a preprogrammed PIC which will have a line follower mode and a obstacle avoidance mode. You will be able to quickly make a cheap robot for possibly under ten euro using this pic, some LEDs, LDRs and a few other inexpensive components.
Hello All,
I've now added the program I used to control my RC car onto the website free for members to download. It works perfectly on my computer so I would imagine there will be no problems but if there is let me know in the forum so that I can get working on them quickly and everyone else will be able to see that the problem has been noted. You can find the program in the freebies section of my site www.ozirock.webs.com.
The program is designed to work with a Velleman k8055 usb interface board but I'd love to modify it to work with many different devices so if you have a different usb interface board and want to control your RC car using it let me know and I'll try to make a program for you.
I'm currently working on creating a program to use a PIC as the brain for my autonomous robot. This PIC will have four modes which can be selected using a push button. The modes are as follows.
Hopefully I'll get this completed over the next few weeks and I'll post all the detail on the site so you can all do the same. You can get an idea of how an Autonomous Robot works by watching the videos at http://ping.fm/62lAk
I've started working on a ebook that will describe how to convert an old RC car into an autonomous robot using the methods found on Ozirocks Projects. Hopefully it wont be too long and will cover all you need to know. So look out for that ebook coming soon.
I have created an Email Subscription Service so you can have a weeks project updates delivered to you every Friday. To join siply go to http://ping.fm/n81V9 and fill in your details.
Hope this helps.
Hello,
A couple have friends have allowed me to post some new videos to the site which show more of the types of projects which are possible for a beginner to do. These projects include demonstrations of sensors and demonstrations of fully operational robots. You can find all the videos here.
Thanks,
Ozirock
http://ping.fm/KPlU3
I've noticed that there is a Robotics Club up in Dublin and I was wondering if anyone in Monaghan was interested in having our own. If there was interest we could organize meeting's to discuss our projects and to try solve each others problems. We could have tutorials on creating different sensors and components. We could also organize competitions for line follower races, obstacle avoidance robots,anything we can think of really.
If you want some more information on creating a simple DIY Robot have a look at my site (http://ping.fm/MDr4I), it's pretty bare at the minute but hopefully I'll get time over the next few weeks to update it with current progress. I have managed to create a line follower sensor and obstacle avoidance sensor successfully and I'm working on using a PIC microcontroller to be the brains of the robot so even though it's not posted on the site yet feel free to ask about it in the forum.
Let me know if anyone is interested either by posting here or on the forum and if we get enough interest I'll try to find somewhere to hold our meetings. The meeting would probably take place on a Saturday because I would be at uni in Dublin all week.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Ozirock
http://ping.fm/ogA07
Hello All,
I created a press release today and posted it to a few sites, you can find an example here at http://ping.fm/TT1l5
Thanks,
Ozirock
http://ping.fm/BuspH
Hi,
I've just completely updated the site layout, it should now be much easier to navigate round. I've added an index page so that all the pages are easily reached quickly and you can find what your looking for with ease. I'd appreciate it if anyone would like to have a look and let me know what they think of the new layout, is it easy to navigate or a complete nightmare, all opinions welcome.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Ozirock
http://ping.fm/MEgeh
I've added a new video section to the site, you can find it here. You can watch the videos I have created about the projects on the site and also you can upload videos of your own projects if you like.
You can find a short video here which shows me testing a prototype of the sensor for the RC car both autonomous and pc controlled versions. I hope to get details of both of these projects up shortly.
Heres a short video of the RC Car being controlled be the timer, it just shows the car driving round the corner and back again. You'll find all you need to do it yourself here on my site.
I've made a video of the RC Car being controlled from the laptop using a program with a timer to give it a command at preset times. You'll find all you need to do it yourself here on my site.
You can find a short video of the car driving round a corner under the computers control here.
I've managed to set up a program that will control the rc car using a path which is set in the code, the program uses a timer to know when to implement each control. You can find all you need to do it yourself here.
Just another video to show the computer controlled RC Car in action, all the information on how to set it up yourself can be found here.
This video shows the user interface aswell as the actual car driving. You can watch the video on youtube here.
This is just a short video to show the RC car being controlled from the laptop. All the information you need to do it yourself can be found here. Dont be afraid to ask questions in the forum too.
You can watch the video on youtube here. It shows that even with the best effort simple things can go wrong.
I have successfully managed to control an RC Car from my laptop using a Velleman K8055 usb interface board and some code I created with the help of the guys at vbforum.net. You can find the information and the code to do it yourself here.
