Drawing open street maps on the Makelangelo looks fantastic and is painless once you have the Open Street Map OSM file into DXF format. Here are the steps I use to download Open Street Map data as a DXF.
G02 will draw an arc clockwise in the XY plane.
G02 (X[value]) (Y[value]) (I[value]) (J[value]) (F[value]);
G03 will draw an arc counterclockwise in the XY plane.
G03 (X[value]) (Y[value]) (I[value]) (J[value]) (F[value]);
Optional parts (are in parenthesies). [value] should be replaced by a decimal number with optional exponent.
Arcs begin at the current tool position and end at (X,Y).
The circle of the arc has a center at (I,J).
F indicates the feed rate, the speed to draw the line.
If X or I are not included in the GCode command, the tool position X is used.
If Y or J are not included in the GCode command, the tool position Y is used.
In previous posts I’ve shown you the micromouse maze that I’m building, as well as the micromouse robot. Today I’m going to show you the maze solving code I’m using to find the center of a maze. Here’s a preview.
Encoders give a micromouse the power to measure the distance it travels so that it can build a mental map of a maze. Read on to see how I measure the movement of the wheels to calculate turns and forward movements.
In my previous post I connected four analog distance sensors to my Arduino Due and fed the sensor data to Processing, which displayed a graph of the results. In this post I’m attaching continuous servos and hooking these pieces together to get object avoidance.
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