Thursday, November 13, 2008

Ta-da

I finally decide to start on my robot project! I ordered the Arduino Duemilanove, Motor Shield kit, breadboard and usb cable from Adafruit for $67.45 (shipping kills ¬¬) I also ordered awesome wheel tracks, SRF05 Range finder, and Tamiya twin motor (It reminds me of Twin Drive from Gundam 00 :) ) from SuperDroid Robots for $65.74. I'll post some pictures when the package arrive! Still waiting for the UPS guy to come...can't believe USPS arrive faster they were ordered on the same day...
For those who don't know...

Overview

The Arduino Duemilanove ("2009") is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega168 (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.

"Duemilanove" means 2009 in Italian and is named after the year of its release. The Duemilanove is the latest in a series of USB Arduino boards; for a comparison with previous versions, see the index of Arduino boards.



Here's the Arduino Duemilanove

And the Motor Shield Kit


^Note to self: READ THE DESCRIPTIONS! Now I have to solder the thing -_-

Time to play around with tutorials!

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