The Arduino Robot is the first official Arduino on wheels. The robot has two processors, one on each of its two boards. The Motor Board controls the motors, and the Control Board reads sensors and decides how to operate. Each of the boards is a full Arduino board programmable using the Arduino IDE. Both Motor and Control boards are microcontroller boards based on the ATmega32u4 from Atmel. The Robot has many of its pins mapped to on-board sensors and actuators.
Users will learn about electronics, mechanics, and software. It comes with a number of project examples, and it is a powerful robotics platform that can be hacked to perform all sorts of tasks. The robot includes with a number of inputs; two potentiometers, five buttons, a digital compass, five floor sensors, and an SD card reader. It also has a speaker, two motors, and a color screen as outputs. You can control all these sensors and actuators through the Robot library.
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As always with Arduino, every element of the platform – hardware, software and documentation – is freely available and open-source. This means users can learn exactly how it’s made and use its design as the starting point for their own robots. The Arduino Robot is the result of the collective effort from an international team looking at how science can be made fun to learn. It is available on line from Adafruit.
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