My First Robot
Greetings All,
Here is my first robot, a line following robot (black line). Its based on the Intel 8088 microprocessor and was built for a class I was taking at college. It has photo-interrupters for line detection and a pair of H-Bridges for motor control. I chose to fabricate the printed circuit boards rather than use wire wrap because I had access to an LPKF M60 circuit board plotter and I knew it would be more reliable as well.
The bulldozer platform was a Toys-R-Us wired RC control toy purchased for $20. If I recall the blade of the dozer was not controllable. I think I'll modify it over this Christmas so that it can be run by a Freescale (Motorola) MC9S08QE128 DEMOQE128 low-cost evaluation board I recently received for attending the Freescale Coldfire V1 Seminar. You can get the same evaluation board from PEmicro.com or any number of electronics distributors for $99.