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. ”

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.

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).

• https://sites.google.com/site/daguproducts/home/tutorials/understanding-mr-general
  • Bot 08M
  • "Start Here" robot
  • greatly improved manual
  • Make your own IR obstacle detection sensor
  • pan/tilt kit was designed right here on LMR
  • Gareth's Picaxxo
  • "How to's" for the speakjet
  • 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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