Dual-axis Accelerometer w/ Boe-Bot

Dan Taylor

I am building a simple project with the Dual-axis Accelerometer and Boe-Bot. I connected the Accelerometer to a breadboard which was connected to the Boe-Bot via wires. The program senses which way the Accelerometer is tilted and the Boe-Bot turnes that way. So if you tilted the breadboard that has the Accelerometer on it forward the Boe-Bot would move forward, ect.

But the wires that connect the Boe-Bot with the breadboard really get in the way and get tangled up. I have been trying to think of a way that I could·get rid of them and use Infrared or some communication device... Any ideas?

Any help would be readily excepted!!

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Dan Taylor

SRLM

So: you have two seperate BOEs, one on the BOT and another handheld?

You have serveral options: IR would be the cheapest, easiest and most unreliable. Otherwise, you could use RF transmitters and recievers, including a bluetooth module. So, it's how much you want to spend and how reliable and easy you want it to be.

Dan Taylor

I am not really sure what my options are so I am not sure which one to uses. Could you explain the RF transmitter and receiver? and how I could get them?

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Dan Taylor

sylvie369

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=524063

Dan Taylor

Thank you much! Thats just the imformation I wanted!

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Dan Taylor

sylvie369

Thank Andy Lindsay - I just posted a link. He wrote a great post.