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darling-mini-mover-bot

Darling is a 1980 Mini Mover 5 that was donated to UMass Amherst in 1982. We revived it with an Arduino and controlled it with an accelerometer.

Dependencies

Hardware:

  1. Arduino Uno R3

  2. MinIMU-9 v2 Gyro, Accelerometer, and Compass (L3GD20 and LSM303DLHC Carrier) [Pololu Item#1268]

  3. Force-Sensing Resistor - 0.5" Circle [Pololu Item#1696]

  4. 1980 Mini Mover 5

Software:

  1. Arduino Uno Drivers link

  2. MinIMU LSM303 supporting library link

  3. Arduino Wire Library

Installation

Hardware Instruction:

Software Instruction:

  1. Install the dependencies correctly and ensure that the hardware has been correctly installed.

  2. Open darling.ino in the \darling folder (source folder).

  3. Make sure all the tabs are within your arduino IDE

  4. Verify the code and upload it to your arduino.