Efika 5200B Project Capek Robot in category Robotics proposed by Kevin Nickels on 26th April 2007 (accepted on 27th April 2006) [View Full Project]

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	The supporting cast takes shape posted by Kevin Nickels on 15th May 2007 Classes and grading are over, so I've had a chance to begin work on the infrastructure for the CAPEK robot. Here's what's changed recently Removed the old Polaroid sensors, the battery/charger/PSU, and the PC-104 stack from the robot, and cleaned off all the dust. Verified all the shaft encoder and H-bridge wiring, replaced a faulty encoder on one side, and designed some signal conditioning for the H-bridge circuits so that they'll work with higher switching frequencies. Copied VMWare (and WinXP) from my old laptop, installed the 492 upgrades to Windows to bring that up-to-date, and installed and verified the OOPic Compiler inside windows. This doesn't come for Linux, so the VMWare is necessary as I refuse to have Windows as my primary OS, even on a lab computer :) Started re-learning the OOPic - my plan is to use the oopic as a slave to the EFIKA to handle the motor/encoders as a pair, with at least P control of the speed. With the gearbox that I have, anything more than P is probably a waste of time.