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10/29/12

More Rover 5 progress

As you can see, short stand-offs are too small to mount the servo in the hole.

This is as far down as possible with battery mounted

So while there are still nothing moving here, I'm working on a little OS to control the rover. It will be a breadboard button system:


Here the two buttons are essentially a
2-button keyboard for my Rover 5 OS
Menu selection using a potmeter!

OS screenshot
Clicking button 1 will activate temperature readouts to the LCD
Clicking button 2 works as a 'back' button

Pre-broken pushbutton from the Sparkfun Inventors Kit.
I still managed to get it working with some creative wiring :/


Here's the setup so far. It's basically half the SIK projects on the
same breadboard, all rolled into one 7K 'OS'
As you can see, that is all on an Uno, using all digital PWR but #7. So I just moved the project over to my new Android Mega ADK board, and it worked just the same. Both the Uno and the Mega will run the Rover eventually.

10/28/12

Working with Rover 5 and the top plate

Helping hand is configured as low as possible...

...low enough to keep a card in position over a 10 standoff


Tape over reserved holes, these are for mounting on the Rover

Now basically just move and twist whatever you want to mount and
have something that shines from behind so the holes will light up.
Tape will cover holes you can't use! 



So here's a motor controller, an Uno,a Mega and the whole baseblate + breadboard
mounted on a Rover 5

10/27/12

Android Mega ADK test and design work concept

Here's some stills from booting up the CM9 modded S2 with an DFrobot Android Mega ADK (2560)

Haven't tested it yet, just installed the driver so far.
It appears to work and blinks green on boot and reset.

Rooted Galaxy S2

DFrobot 2A dual motor controller

Cyanogen 9/4.0.4 S2 with a 2GB SDcard

Robot top plate mounted on Rover 5 on some stand+offs

The shape of things to come....