help on robot project

[Ksavona]

hi i just got into building beam bots as research for my final digital 3D design project and i need to build a smarter robot. my initial idea was to use the same light seeking curcit with different diodes like IR detectors to make the bot follow objects. then i went all wild and came up with some new ideas that would probably require a Microcontroler. i have read a post on the pic chips but i still have some questions on it.

1: if i get the pic board and the mikroBasic for PIC will that work the same as having the PicBasic compiler cos i really dont want to pay for that.

2: if mikroBasic for PIC is will work with the board is the programing language the same as picBasic.

thanks kris

 

[Krumlink]

Are you brand new to Microcontrollers and PIC's? If so you may want to start out small, I dont have too much advise for you but maybe Blueroomelectronics will.

Good Luck

 

[ikalogic]

hello,

my first project using a pic (116F89A) was a light follower robot, back in 2004. ever since i switched to ATMEL specially the AT89S52 and ATMEGA16.

you can find on my website many ressources, it can give you a couple ideas, then you can discuss them here if you want.

 

[Ksavona]

thanks for the replies guys and cool website man.

ok so heres the deal i know very little about electronics or microcontrolers all i know i learnt this past week from reading sites and pdfs. the robots i have built are beam bots which move towards light using solar power. what i need to do is to simulate animal behaviour in some robots to make them look like they are thinking and have instincts. the reason i'm doing this is because i want to creat an animation for my minor project which will show a potential evolution of a programmed robot with a particular function (eg: building other robots) to a robot which is self aware and has no function other than self preservation (eg: human). i'm building this robot as research on:
what makes a robot
what would be considered to be efficient and evolved by a robot.

did that make sense?