The Italian Arduino brings a private robot on wheels for young people. The robot is based on opensourcetechnologie and users can use the platform to customize and develop your own creations. The Arduino Robot is in July available.
Arduino, best known for his cheap open-source do-it-yourself kits with motherboard and microcontroller, has its first robot for the consumer market announced. The Arduino Robot consists of two plates. A motorbord provides for the operation of the motors, while a control board to the sensors reading and the other control regulates. In both cases, there are signs that are programmable on the basis of Arduino’s ide and both signs contain the ATmega32u4 microcontroller.
The robot contains two small wheels and two dc motors. Also has the robot on a small color lcd display, a speaker, a digital compass, five ir sensors to follow lines, five i/o pins and six pwm channels. Energy involves the device via usb or four aa batteries. The microcontrollers feature both in the usb communication with the device via the usb port to computers that appears as a virtual com port.
All documentation on hardware and software and any source code is freely available and the company calls its mobile object a ‘starting point’ for the user to make his own robot. The Arduino Robot is developed in cooperation with the Spanish Complubot, and he served as first demonstrated during the Maker Faire which is currently in San Mateo is taking place. There is the product also to obtain. In July, the robot then purchase via the website of Arduino for a yet unknown price.
