RobotWars101

Would be brilliant if it was near Brighton as I'm Worthing based and can't travel too far because of a neck/balance issue. Then I could attend my first ever event .

Can't believe I didn't spot that controller, it's brilliant. I'm tempted to order one for testing and negate designing my own board till later :P. I also spotted the pololu AVR lib has pulsein functions :D. It appears to use the port interrupts to trigger the timer and dumps all the pulse info into ...

Well you don't 'need' to use all the functions on the MC33887, fault detection and current feedback aren't a necessity. Also the enable pin and one of the disable pins don't have to be used. All you should need is the IN1 and 2 ports for direction and PWM one of the disable ports for speed control. ...

Those are awesome looking designs, that's exactly the sort of thing I wish to create. I'm hoping to design a board so all I have to do it plug in a battery, receiver and damaged armour etc. can just be removed and replaced :P. I was thinking of the all in one chips, I was looking at the MC33887 http...

That sounds fair enough. My main issue is not knowing how to handle the PWM coming out of the Rx and into the micro. I can quite happily design the H-bridge control circuit and use the ATTiny to control the H-bridge with PWM but I'm not sure whether I should be using interrupts of some kind to deter...

Hi I'm looking into building a new antweight (I built a couple almost 10 years ago but never got to compete) but I'd like to integrate as much of the control circuitry as I can into a PCB that forms the base of the bot. I have another hobby called airsoft (like paintball) and pretty much all the gun...

Well the PICAXE's are cheap and they can be networked together using I2C I think. So having more than one processor in a ant would make sence. Also makes the design of the system alot easier. Instead of having one chip try to do everything, one chip could do steering one could do weapon control etc....

I'm alright I got a National Diploma in Electronic Engineering sitting behind me. Only major problem I've found with the PICAXE is the very limited program space. But this can be overcome by attaching a EEPROM to it.

omg check these out, its called PICAXE. They are the cheapest microcontrollers (that are actually easy to program) i've ever seen. http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/ I've ordered the 8 pin version to try it out, it only cost me ?13 inc. vat & p&p. Comes with the development board, software, bat...

To what extent would AI be allowed in an ant i.e. would a completely AI controlled ant be acceptable? Apart from taking the fun and skill away from the game, I think AI could help with things like weapons control etc... Or on the more extreme, cluster bots could work with each other using AI and onl...