Arduino UNO

Here are the Designs for an LCD Shield for an Arduino UNO.
Ingredients: 

• 10k Potentiometer
• Radio Shack Perf-Board
• An RT-204-1 (ver 2.0) 20x4 LCD
• Some salvaged Ribbon Cable from an old DVD player
• Some single strand wire & rosin core solder

We breadboarded it last week, and now it's time to solder it all together!

 The "}" is the ribbon cable which breaks out into 6 wires to connect to the Arduino UNO Board.

Well, they were wrong then... weren't they?!

So-- we finally have created the monster.  The 1st Aggie-bot was born today, October 19th, 2010 at 4:06pm.  Since it's still young, we haven't yet given it a name (or even a gender), and it is completely immobile.

The original design was modified slightly during construction to rectify a minor glitch in the purchased parts... the push-button switches we got default to "open", so the whole remote controller was reversed... up was on... and down was off.

We spent the better half of the meeting trying to manufacture wheels that were light enough for the Hi-speed servos to spin and propel the Aggie-bot... all to no avail.  So we came up with a new design that involves a rubber band drive chain for each servo, and we'll most likely use much larger wheels in the back (making the Aggie-bot Rear-wheel drive).

That's all for now!

The Birth of imagiNation

Hello, and Welcome back to yet another year of the Aggie Tech Club.  This afternoon, amidst the pouring rain, we brainstormed and designed our first project of the year... a remote controlled robot!

Here are the sketches and an early computerized design:

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