I made this robot during a class at NCSU. The class had the
option to either make a robot to follow a line, or to make a Robot to
seek a GPS signal. Me and one other student chose the
latter. Its relatively complicated because the GPS signal is a
text-string that must be parsed, and processed to be meangful.
This data must then be combined with simple trigonometry to produce
values that, when processed some more, produces values to send to the
wheels. This Robot was the best-performing of the two GPS robots.
I don't detail the capabilities of project
Pegasus here but this it is in development. Below is some images
of it, and a video of an early development test consisting of a
slow-rampup test of its motors by the computer.
This is a video of another previous project. It is a line
follower but, unlike the other robots in the class, it follows the line
very quickly and accurately and produces the sound of a "Dixie Horn"
when it is done, producing laughter and amusement.
