{"id":554,"date":"2012-05-05T00:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/?p=554"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:28:48","slug":"autonomous-robot-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/05\/autonomous-robot-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous robot update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work (play?) on the Autonomous Robot has triggered a large stream of activity including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using the Processing code to control a Nanode acting as a logic analyser for the robot Arduino controller.<\/li>\n<li>using BusPirate as logic analyser<\/li>\n<li>using RGB LEDs to display the robots sensor data &#8220;view&#8221; of it&#8217;s environment<\/li>\n<li>struggling with bad wiring (bread board jumpers), possible power supply issues with batteries and possibly with shield used.<\/li>\n<li>Trying to work around the on board goodies (resistors, LEDs) of Arduino as these can really interfere with some circuits.<\/li>\n<li>Exploring CodeBlocks and Doxygen use in large Arduino projects (both are really useful!)<\/li>\n<li>Exploring how much code and variables you can &#8216;stuff&#8217; into an Arduino &#8230;. before instability kicks in as well as the techniques used to &#8216;save memory&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>(re)discovering that the Arduino has more digital pins (all the analogue pins are also digital!) and if you really want to squeeze some more, then change some fuses!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More on all of these in coming posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work (play?) on the Autonomous Robot has triggered a large stream of activity including: Using the Processing code to control a Nanode acting as a logic analyser for the robot Arduino controller. using BusPirate as logic analyser using RGB LEDs to display the robots sensor data &#8220;view&#8221; of it&#8217;s environment struggling with bad wiring (bread &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/05\/autonomous-robot-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Autonomous robot update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-or-device","tag-robot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}