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Arduino Powered Mini-Bot: A 24 Hour Robotics Project

We had a lot of snow this Friday. This meant that I was snowed in, and since the snow meant I couldn’t work on my Sparkfun AVC (Autonomous Vehicle Challenge) Vehicle (even frozen water is not kind to electronics), I decided to busy myself with a new project. It started out as just some experimenting, but then I decided to turn it into a full robot, and here’s the result. Enjoy:

Arduino + Gyro Sensor

This is basic code to take input from a gyro sensor and export it through the serial window. There is also a function in there that takes a baseline average of 10 samples to establish what the “zero rotation” voltage is.

Code after the break:

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