1 #+TITLE:hausner challenge-bot overview
2 * challenge-bot robot overview
3 ** videos for assembling the hardware
5 software is available as nice neat installable packages for
6 Mac OS X, GNU+Linux, and MS Windows.
8 it's also available in source code form, so you can compile it for
11 all software used in this robot is available for you to use for any
12 purpose, improve, and, share those improvements (if you want).
15 control how the robot gets information from sensors, and moves
18 https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
23 use this program to view parts inside the "3d-printables"
24 directory. write code to modify the parts and create completely
27 http://www.openscad.org/downloads.html
32 http://fritzing.org/download/?donation=0
35 extract the contents of .tgz files, like the content of this class.
37 this is needed on MS Windows(tm) only.
39 if you are on Mac OS X, or GNU (on cygwin or linux), then you do
40 not need this. your software will be able to extract the
45 all the source code for the class is available here:
47 http://challenge-bot.com/repos/?p=challenge-bot;a=snapshot;h=232ff7a14f9d8be27362c268c6cdd1b67f59a24a;sf=tgz
49 what follows is a high level description of the contents of the most
50 important top level directories in the class content.
52 the parts of the robot that are 3d-printed are in this directory.
53 use openscad to open the parts in this directory.
55 all the wiring diagrams and arduino code live in this directory.
57 under this directory, there is one subdirectory for each
59 each build stage is prefixed with a letter to make it appear in
61 for example, =a_serial= contains the first build stage.
63 to troubleshoot a misbehaving robot, go through these stages
64 in order until you find a stage that does not work correctly.
66 first, in =a_serial=, you'll check whether the arduino can
67 communicate over the serial connection with the computer.
69 in each stage, make sure the wires shown in the fritzing
70 diagram are correctly connected on your robot.
71 then load the corresponding arduino sketch to your robot
72 and either check the serial monitor, or turn on the motor battery.
74 this will help you pinpoint exactly where the problem lies on your