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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Buzzbot – Odometry Task
Now that I have my Interrupts working on the the PIO Port, I have successfully adapted some code to provide Odometry for Buzzbot, based on reading the wheel encoders.
This odometry task provides me with the following data:
Buzzbots Location in 2D Space (X and Y cooridinates).
Current Heading in Degees.
Average distance travelled in centimeters.
Angle of rotation about the axis.
I would [...]
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Interrupts on makecontroller now working
Finally worked out how to use the GPIO interrupts on the AT91SAM7X, which is the brain of the makecontroller. A couple of “gotchas” along the way, especially for a newby to these beasts like me, which as usual, after I’ve finally worked it out I look back see how simple it was lol.
The three main [...]
