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| BEAM Robotics Photovore Tutorial |
BEAM Robotics Photovore Tutorial
 07-30-2009 11:38 PM
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| Difficulty: | Easy to moderate | |||||
| Estimated Time: | 3 to 5 hours doing activities, about 2 hours just to read | |||||
| Skills Required: | Use of multimeter, breadboarding & power supply | |||||
| Parts Required: | Resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors of various types/values, solar cells, CdS resistors, motors, IR receiver & emitter | |||||
| Tools Required: | Multimeter Breadboard Wires for breadboard Lamp or other light source Alligator clips (helpful, but not really required) Jeweler's screwdrivers |
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Introduction
This tutorial (attached PDF file) contains 44 letter sized pages of information about Photovores for people that are entering the exciting field of BEAM robotics. If you are starting out with this technology this (perhaps not so) brief introduction will help you get started, explaining what BEAM is and presenting a basic description of the electronic components that are used by this robot. The tutorial is a PDF file that you can read using any compatible PDF viewer. Contents Introduction to BEAM What is it? Who is behind this? Electronic Components Description of the components used in the tutorial How Does it Work? Description on how featured Photovore works The Circuits Description of featured circuits Lets Do Something Hands on activities using some of the featured components Pics of Some Photovores As the title says, pictures of some Photovores Link Links to useful websites for further more detailed research Acknowledgements A Caveat As mentioned in this description, the tutorial contains many links to more information and resources. Due to the dynamic nature of the Web, I cant guarantee that these links are all functional. If you should find a broken link let me know and I will make a reasonable effort to locate a working URL to the resource. I will update the document and repost an updated copy. Since a lot of online material was written from 1998 2003, some information may no longer be available. Note: I just loaded the PDF file using the FoxIt viewer and found that the links were not active. I don't know enough of this viewer to determine the cause. Tested with Acrobat Reader, no problem there. |
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| Tags: | BEAM robot photovore light sensitive Cds solar cells | |||||
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