The chassis This is an Arexx RP6 robot platform. I have spent a lot of time messing with this thing over the years, and I have learned a lot from it. The website for it can be found here: RP6 Robot system (I highly recommend doing some browsing around their website, it’s a reminder of a time when websites had character). A run down of the specs lists an 8-bit ATMEGA32, a pair of optical encoders, motors, light sensors, touch sensors, the whole shebang.
Great, yet another “How to install $x$ on $y$” blog post. Exactly what the internet was missing. Just be grateful I’m not serving ads on this website.
I wanted to do my best to ensure this build log was as close to self-contained as reasonable, which means that sometimes we’re going to get low hanging fruit. I found two different sources already covering this, one Youtube Video by Ubuntu-robotics, and a Blog post on Medium.
The What: QUAIL will be a line following robot. That is as much as I want it to do. Sounds simple enough, but there is a little more going on than that.
The Why: Over the last few months, I’ve been working on a completely different project. I don’t want to spoil what the project was just yet, as it’s still ongoing. it was an attempt to push my own boundaries in terms of what I know and understand about robotics.