Lab 2: Building Basic Robots

This week in lab, we had the opportunity to build 3 robots. Each robot has 2 Servo wheels connected to a record and uses an Arduino Uno and Breadboard.

The first robot, BasicBot, began by having the functionality of forwards and backwards movement. It was programmed to move forward for 2 seconds, then backwards for 2 seconds, and then stop for 2 seconds, before repeating.

Next, the functionality of rotation was added to the robot. So on top of having forwards and backwards motion, it was also able to rotate left and right based off of a pre-programmed pattern.

The second robot, FollowBot, had the functionality of forwards and backwards movement as well as the ability to stop. The robots movements were determined by

The final robot, PhotoBot, responded to change in light in order to determine how to rotate. If there was more light on the left side (right photoresistor is covered), the bot would rotate left.

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