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The routerbot we almost have built as descibed in the routerbot project is self-sufficient, but you can get more fun with it if you put an inexpensive wireless camera on top of it. This post describes how you can do that.
You can get an inexpensive wireless pinhole camera at ebay for about $30 shipped. You can also decide that you want a camera with IR LEDs that make it work well in complete darkness. If the laws in your area allow that you even can get one with a built-in microphone, so you can send your routerbot as a scout into the darkest closet in your house to look and listen if there is anyone there. Kids would love that!!
the camera can be attached directly to the router enclosure, but it would make more fun if you attach it to the top with two regular servos as it is shown on this photo:
If you do this your routerbot will get a “head” and this will allow it to express more emotions.
BTW, as you can see on the photo I used a separate 9V bttery to power the camera. You can draw the power from the same 9.6V battery. Either solder the wires to the Battery Cable 1l or connect to port VS1 or VS2 on the servo controller.
Connect elevation servo to port 4 and pan servo to port 5 of your SSC-32 controller. Remember that ports are numbered starting from 0 and the black wire should be connected to the ground pin.
Now your router is ready to be fine-tuned.
This post is published in Hardware, How To, Robotics.
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February 24th, 2008 at 2:02 am
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