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Back to the drawing board!	by LongFist	2012-12-13 08:58:37
The original "MowBot" plans - and I think I should have run full-speed-ahead with them - called for a single in-one-place "Mother Brain" (Linux PC or whatever) that would conduct/direct several "MowBots" in their endeavors to mow the lawn. Communications would take place at somewhere near 1/4-watt in the 6M band; totally efficient, totally quiet, and (for me, at least) totally legal. But there are other options, from awesome comm boards to various and sundry other PLCs - all of the basic building blocks of this project. And as I re-think the nature of this (these?) beast(s), I see the necessity to re-engineer them to some degree. Especially because - if I plan correctly - I will be able to produce the "MowBots" for even less! Having more "MowBots" operating in concert overcomes the intrinsically shorter range that battery-operated electric motors possess. Having a central command system allows for better coverage than a macro- or script-based system might provide, to say nothing about the flexibility. So the project has taken a step back - keeping the Propeller as the robot's core (if possible), but re-engineering the communications equipment and various external sensors required to keep these robots from wandering off the range. I'll update as I learn more. That's the curse that caused this re-design: I learned more. But if I can make these things hardier, and run longer per full charge - then that's what I'm going to do - the path that I'm going to take!
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Don't worry, most projects take a few tries...	by EnzoMatrix	2012-12-17 02:25:47
Thanks. Means a lot, believe it or else...	by LongFist	2012-12-19 07:37:45
It would appear that I'm not alone! (mowBot fail)	by LongFist	2013-08-05 12:27:30
Second link de-edited for some reason...	by LongFist	2013-08-05 12:28:48
Heh. Funny article.	by EnzoMatrix	2013-08-06 01:21:34
Und thot's why I shared it!	by LongFist	2013-08-06 10:18:51
MowBot Update: New Chassis Design!	by LongFist	2014-08-18 10:15:08
Link to Dutch news site on Open Source autodrones	by Klaranth	2013-08-26 08:32:54

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