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Homing with Pololu IR beacon

A project log for Little Friend

This companion robot, 9000 farads of super capacitance, spends less than eight minutes feeding--then 75 minutes or more she can be a buddy.

mike-rigsbyMike Rigsby 04/14/2016 at 00:240 Comments

I assembled the beacons and put one on the robot, the other "to be found."

The "to be found" beacon sends out so much signal in all directions (it does that on purpose--for moving targets to find one another) that it was hard to tamp down and directionalize for homing purposes. I put that beacon in a sealed cardboard box with a slit and am now getting some results I can work with.

My software needs some work to make the wheels line up with the sensor detection--that will be a later post.

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