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| <html><p style="text-align:right;">Published 16 Jan 2020</p></html> | |
| <html><p style="text-align:center;"><b><font size="6">Mr. General</font></b></p></html> | |
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| ===== Overview ===== | |
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| I recently came across parts of a robot system that turned out to be parts of a "Mr. General" type robot platform. "//Mr.General is a general purpose robotic platform that uses a bread board to work with almost any processor. An IR compound eye mounted on a pan/tilt assembly can be used to track moving objects or as a simple range finder. IR sensors on the corners can detect obstacles or edges.// " | |
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| ===== Hardware description ===== | |
| The hardware I have consists of a mainboard, 2 servo motors, and a tilt/swivel bracket with an infrared 'compound eye'. The mainboard has a prototyping area, corner mounted infrared transmitter/receiver sensors, power regulators, motor driver chips, status LEDs and LED driver chip and many extension plug/sockets. | |
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| The tilt/swivel bracket, servos and compound eye form the 'head' of the robot, and with suitable software allow the robot to track objects close to it (< 200mm). | |
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| ====== References and Additional Resources ====== | |
| * https://sites.google.com/site/daguproducts/home/tutorials/understanding-mr-general | |
| * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140305132246/http://letsmakerobots.com/node/4120|Bot 08M]] | |
| * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160324144940/http://letsmakerobots.com/start|"Start Here" robot]] | |
| * [[|greatly improved manual]] | |
| * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140321224119/http://letsmakerobots.com/node/2907|Make your own IR obstacle detection sensor]] | |
| * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100618235013/http://letsmakerobots.com:80/node/7046|pan/tilt kit was designed right here on LMR]] | |
| * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121017133219/http://letsmakerobots.com/node/21141|Gareth's Picaxxo]] | |
| * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120527015500/http://letsmakerobots.com/node/4305|"How to's" for the speakjet]] | |
| * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121127031303/http://letsmakerobots.com/node/13210|Arduino and TTS256 companion processor]] | |
| * http://www.arobose.com/docs/Mr.General_Instruction_manual.pdf Mr. General instruction manual | |
| * https://robottini.altervista.org/diffident-robot Using the 'compound eye' with an Arduino processor | |
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