Light follower robot
Light follower robot I have an arduino based light follower robot using the following parts already working 1. Tamiya caterpillar kit 2. Tamiya twin gearbox 3. Arduino Diecimila 4. H bridge L293e 5. 8 Diodes 6. Bread board 7. 4 Photo resistance (two in front, two in the back) Now the idea is use Fritzing to get rid of bread board and make a kind of “arduino shield” that contains all components and reduces weight and size. But I’m facing some troubles because I can’t find any component in fritzing that looks like my L293e.
Hi Kurt,
that sounds like a very fun and interesting project. Personally I would be very interested to know exactly which Tamiya kits you're using and where you purchased them. Building an arduino on wheels is also a project, which is on my wish list to try if I find some time. So I would be very interested in your progress and your findings. ... like also what kind of motors and what kind of battery are you using and how much radius of action (of running time) does those that give you?
But on the topic of that missing H-bridge. We don't have this part in Fritzing yet. It probably will be in with the next release. And we'll have a script with which you could easily generate other DIL-package chips.
So at the moment you'll have to wait a little, or you can try to make the part yourself (though that will be a struggle with the current version of the parts editor and missing documentation on the subject).
Thanks for trying out Fritzing. Be sure to watch out for our next release and please describe your project more detailed once this website has its projects section more functional.
best dirk
Hi. I have a slideshow at instructables (this is the version with two eyes)
http://www.instructables.com/id/Ligth_Follower_Arduino_Based_Robot/
im working whit the tutorial to make my own DIL(the h bridge) once i have it ill share it
i live in mexico so i contacted a local supplier to buy parts
regards.
Ah, very nice! Thanks for sharing that.
And I didn't see any battery in the photo's but I assume you've got so much surface that its easy to 'rubberband' some 9V batteries onto.
And I really would advice you not to kill yourself making that H-bridge Fritzing part. We already have this on our todo for the next release. If you indeed can manage making a working board by placing two 555's next to each other, I think that will be much less work.
Please keep us updated on the production of the board and any other problems that arise from trying this with Fritzing.
Thanks! dirk
i think next release will be great :)
i follow this tutorial http://archive.fritzing.org/download/pdk/dilpackagegenerator and worked just fine, now i have the images and the xml file, but i cant import the new part in the new fritzing, is there a way to?
i saw that parts now are *.fz
about battery im using two 9v batts one for circuit, other for arduino, i think are not the best choice :) regards
Exactly.
The tutorial you refer to was meant for the previous (eclipse) version of Fritzing. (That's why it's in archive and not on the new site). Since then a lot of changes have been made to the image format (now multiple layered svg's instead of png's) and the xml part files.
So you would really have to wait until we've updated this DIL package generator to be compliant with the current version. Until then ... I think your double 555 solution could work for now.
Stay tuned.
Then ill wait thanks for all :)
Cool work! Can you maybe send us the Fritzing sketch? From looking at the instructable pictures, I guess we could use it as an example to improve our autorouter. (Just send it to info aat fritzing doot org.)
Cheers!
i sent Fritzing sketch. i hope you find it usefull. regards.
Cool there is a H bridge in the new version ;) im so very happy
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