Kitty BOT - old project, new life
I recently came across the Kitty BOT project (circa 2013) and decided
to build it. I had an old BOE BOT in the closet and decided to bring
it back to life as a Kitty BOT. I followed the PARALLAX article
on how to build and code. The Kitty BOT uses an SPI interface
communicate with an Adafruit MP3 shield. These signals use
pins 11 (mosi), 12 (miso), and 13 (clk). The servos on BOE BOT chassis
have mini 3-pin connectors on the board that are dedicated to
pins 10, 11, 12, and 13.... What I can't determine (and the reason
for this thread on a 3 year old project) is how does the Kitty BOT
code (Arduino based) work using servos connected to pins
12 and 13 and a shield that also uses pins 12 and 13???
to build it. I had an old BOE BOT in the closet and decided to bring
it back to life as a Kitty BOT. I followed the PARALLAX article
on how to build and code. The Kitty BOT uses an SPI interface
communicate with an Adafruit MP3 shield. These signals use
pins 11 (mosi), 12 (miso), and 13 (clk). The servos on BOE BOT chassis
have mini 3-pin connectors on the board that are dedicated to
pins 10, 11, 12, and 13.... What I can't determine (and the reason
for this thread on a 3 year old project) is how does the Kitty BOT
code (Arduino based) work using servos connected to pins
12 and 13 and a shield that also uses pins 12 and 13???
Comments
Thanks for inquiring about this - it helped us realize that we need to add a page to the tutorial that shows how it's breadboarded. You'll have to connect the servos to pins 8 and 9 (or another open set of pins) by bringing the connections up to the breadboard.
Let me know if you need additional help getting that to work.
Thanks,
Matt
http://www.learn.parallax.com/tutorials/robot/shield-bot/arduino-kittybot
It's a modified Arduino version of the original Propeller ActivityBot KittyBot.