Ardupilot goes into the water Part 17
Some of you may wonder.
Why was there such so long silence ?
Indeed, my last entry dates back to last christmas. And here is the reason why:
http://www.apress.com/9781430231837
I was asked by JD Warren, who is also a diydrones member ( http://diydrones.com/profile/JDWarren ) to help him on a book about Arduino-controlled robots.
JD is a great inventor and maker of various machines that (mostly) roll on wheels. He was also featured on the title of the MAKE magazine in April 2010.
Finally, with a delay of six months, the book was published by mid July and JD, Josh and i are happy now that all the work is over.
If you want things to be moved with Arduino, this is the ultimate Book.
There are lots of hands-on descriptions in it and it is also a good starting point for newbies, that have never had a soldering iron in their hand.It gives also a good introduction to the basics of electronics and computerized control.
Here is an overview of some of the chapters:
- Basics of motor-control
- Basics of PCB design and fabrication
- R/C control and decoding
- Autonomous sensor guidance
- Frame building from various materials
- Instructions for a variety of robot designs, including:
- Linus the Line Bot, who follows a line on the floor
- Wally the Wall-Bot, who tries to avoid crashing to the wall
- The Bug-Bot, who acts a little bit like an insect
- The Explorer-Bot, who is strong enough to carry a human and that can work outdoors
- The RoboBoat, which is navigating via GPS to predefined waypoints. (this is in fact the chapter written by me and summarizes the building of the catamaran, and the modified ArduPilot hardware that i am using to do the survey of lakes)
- The Lawn-Bot 400, who is the first that can do something useful in your garden
- The Seg-Bot, which is in truth not a robot, but a Segway (tm) Clone
- And finally: the Battle-Bot
The book is available as e-book or in a printed version:
http://www.apress.com/9781430231837 or
http://www.amazon.com/Arduino-Robotics-John-David-Warren/dp/1430231...
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Comment by m00se on March 2, 2012 at 5:44am -
hi,
i sent you a pm, I am really really interested in making or rather finishing my boat, i have an ardupilot mega 2560 and am looking for some good code to use with it,
if you can help me out it would be great,
thanks
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Comment by Harald Molle on April 2, 2012 at 12:44am -
@daniel,
no problem, i have ported the code to the APM.
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Comment by Jim DeGrand on April 20, 2012 at 12:56pm
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Harald - good job on the book and the blog! I have a question about the integration of the fishfinder and the autopilot: are they totally separate? Does the fishfinder use its own gps so you just hand a file saved on the fishfinder to Dr depth when the boat returns to shore? Thanks for your help and pioneering work - I am about to follow in your footsteps!
Jim
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Comment by Harald Molle on April 21, 2012 at 6:53am
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@Jim:
Yes, the systems are totally separate, the only connection is over the Power supply.
The fishfinder has its own GPS and i record the NMEA Data (which contains position and depth) with an RS232 Datalogger to an SD Card.
The data is then processed with Dr. Depth.
We are actually working on a new, more ruggedized boat concept with a side-scan sonar on it.
Stay tuned...
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