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Information About Electronics and Robotics Projects by Students

Events and Special Projects

Tech Fest: Spring 2010
Inverted Pendulum: Spring 2010
Tech Fest: Fall/Winter 2009
Tech Fest: May 2009
Tech Fest: February 2009
Tech Fest: August 2008
Rules: This page details the rules used for line following and line maze contests.

Line Following Robots

Line Following Robots: The main things to consider when building a line following robot.
My Line Following Robot: Walk through with me the decisions I considered and made when constructing a line following robot.
Line Following Robot construction details

Line Maze Solving Robots

This page is Part 1 of a 6 part article covering all aspects of line maze robotics. Look here for the basic information about the hardware and software.
Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
This page is a PowerPoint presentation (in .PDF format) that goes into the details of how the robot solves the maze and figures out how to bypass dead-end paths on the second trip through the maze.
This index may be helpful in finding a specific topic about line maze robotics.
My Line Maze Solving Robot

Sumo Robots

Hardware, Software, Algorithms and Other

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
Assembly: A short tutorial on Assembly Language Programming
Robot sensor information
Info on software available for robot programming
A Glossary of robotic terms
Info on the Microcontroller Chip PIC18F8680 and the SSE8680 Microcontroller Development Board
Info on the Microcontroller Chip PIC18F8680
Info on the SSE8680 Microcontroller Development Board
Laser Navigation: An article on how to use just three reflectors and a laser on the robot to provide accurate navigation

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