Robot Design I
Build, wire, program and document a two-wheel differential drive robot that avoids obstacles under microPython control.
- Sense, Think, ActYou will be able to explain how a robot differs from plain automation, name its three jobs, and point to the part that does each one.
- The Brain and Its PinsYou will wire your first circuit, tell input, output and power pins apart, and see the same board and pins at work on a robot.
- The Six Steps of a BuildYou will name the six steps of a robot build in order, say why the order holds, and carry one robot through all six — testing it and calibrating it until it meets its purpose.
- The Parts, and Why the Motor Needs a DriverYou will identify every component of a robot by its job, choose parts from a purpose, and wire a motor so a pin can control it.
- Two Wheels, One ShapeYou will predict a robot's path from its two wheel numbers, and steer one into a bay — and over a wall — by changing only those numbers.
- Build the ChassisYou will say where every part of a two-wheel chassis goes and why, put the assembly steps in order, read faults back to placements, and start your build record.
- Wire It From the DatasheetYou will read a sensor and a motor-driver datasheet, wire a robot's sonar and both motor switches from a pin table, and fix a mis-wired chassis from its symptom.
- The Two Motion VerbsYou will trace robot programs, predict and run two of them, and write a three-move course of your own that parks the robot in a bay.