Blog Posts with Tag Robotics

A few weeks ago I described my families new years celebration, building a arduino car bot that we used to have a family dance-off. We've been playing around with the arduino bot, and I decided to make it drive and avoid obstacles autonomously. The bot has a servo at the front, with a ultrasonic distance sensor attached to it. The servo turns the sensor in 180 degrees to effectively from side to side. This gives the ability to roughly judge distance objects by the robot. The…

My kids received a robotics kit for Christmas. Here's an Amazon link to a similar car. It was a fun project to put together to explain some of the inner workings of robotics. My oldest has been working with scratch, so he really was interested in what 'real code' looks like. It also gave me an excellent way to revisit C/C++ programming as it had been a while since I had done any projects in it. With the project, we did a dance-off. Each member of our family came up with a…