Battle Bots

[sparten]

Hello my name is Warren Williams and i build and fight Battle bots I recently returned from London after fighting in Robot Wars.

I am now building my newest creation for compition.

Phantasm II and I plan on using the Isopod for weapons lock and direcional control. I had planned to use a palm pilot and have all the software to do the job is there any way i can compile the software that is written in code warrior? to fourth? or do i have to start from scratch again?

also what does anyone reocmend for a compass and or inferred etc. sensors for use on the Iso pod?

Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks

Warren Williams
Team Phantasm
http://phantasm1.com

[nmitech]

Warren,

Palm Pilot & IsoPod CPUs are not the same family. One is the DragonBall (MC68EZ328) other is DSP68F805. So the codewarrior compiler of the DSP are not compatible with your existing C code. Code needs to be modified in order to use with the DSP codewarrior compiler.

If anyone wants to try, please contact Warren at sparten1@swbell.net

chris
-----

[RMDumse]

Well Warren,

The good news is, which ones do you want to know about: GP2D12? IR Ranger, PNA4602M 40KHz with IR LED? QRB1134 Combination LED/Detector? The Agilent ADNS-2051 Optical mouse ground tracking? Devantech SRF04 ultrasonic ranger? Polaroid ultrasonic ranger? ADXL-202 accelerometer? (Murata ENC-03J rate gyro in work...) RC Servos? Quadrature encoders? PWM? PID?

We've been busy here at the office. We've been knocking out robotics interfaces as fast as we can.

No compasses yet. Send us a data sheet and a compass, and we'll send back a coded interface.

[sparten]

Well what I am looking for is the ability to detect the enemy and follow or lock one side of my bot to the opponet at all times. aslo be able to switch to evade mode and ovoid the aggresor. what do you suggest?

my bot is basicaly a triangle three motors 120 degees apart. driven by omni wheels , I want to be able to spin and still have directional control and be able to activate my weapon at will. I belive that the motor controlers that I am using the victor 883 will accept the output of the isopod to drive my motors. I assume that you can control standard servos with the isopod so the victor will work well . it is simply a large servo controler. I will run some tests on it. But I am shure it will work. The compass I will find out what I need. An accelrometer may also be needed. perhaps a pezielectric gyro as well. This will be a very advanced robot. lots of sensors lots of weapons. lots of work.

if you email me I can send you my phone number too dicusse the finner pionts and pick you brain abit. thanks

Warren Williams
Team Phantasm
Phantasm Robotics
http://phantasm1.com
sparten1@swbell.net

[billz]

Since this is my first post on the system, I thought an introduction was in order, a little introduction...

My name is Bill Zimmerly and I've been a Forth programmer for 22 of my 26+ year career. I've lived in St. Louis most of my life, and Warren recently found out about me through a mutual friend.

I met Warren in person Tuesday evening and have officially joined "Team Phantasm" to program his latest Battlebot using the Isopod technology. I've spent much of the last two days studying the Isopod and Isomax PDF files and am looking forward to programming on this platform. (A very well done platform I would like to add!)

I'm using my zForth system to simulate the Isomax scheduler and machine array, and look forward to getting my hand on an actual Isopod to port what I simulate.

I'm a real believer in the Forth philosophy and the FSM philosophy behind this architecture and look forward to working with the people at New Micros Inc. to advance the state of the art in Forth and FSM controllers.