This is what Troy, Christian, and I have been working on at the Ag Engineering department at NCSU. It is really coming along nicely now. It looks like our buddy, Jeff, is going to join us on the project. He has a mechanical engineering degree from Virginia Tech and will work on the robotic elements of the project. We are hoping to get together this weekend to plan this out and go through some of the programming issues. We identified the Arduino board as the embedded robotic controller we want to use. It costs less than $40 new, but Jeff one-upped me and bought one from a buddy for $20. He has already started programming it. I really need to get a little bit more organized with Christian’s programming project, too. Jeff is going to write the program to control the pump, some lights, and a motor to move one set of lights on a track. I think I will have Christian start looking at the possibility of using an Arduino board to read the results from one of the competing sensors. That way, if two people are learning the same technology, they can help each other and there is some redundancy of knowledge.
Arduinos are cool. 🙂 I have one, but haven’t done too much with it yet.
Kendall!!!! Why don’t you join the gang!
Do you want me, or do you want my Arduino?!!
Haha, I kid, I kid 😉
Actually I wouldn’t mind helping out, sounds interesting. Let’s talk about it soon.
Sounds great! We might try to get together for a bit this weekend. I will keep you posted.