IR Sensor with Bot?

[T3_1565]

Has anyone tried connecting the IR sensor to their 2007 bot?? if someone has can you explain how or what it did??

What sort of things can you do with the sensor attacted?

[Steven_585]

No, but i am excited to see what we are going to use it for!

[keen101]

haven't yet, but I would assume you are supposed to wire the outputs the white wire of an old PWM cable, and program/plug it in as a sensor.

But, don't take my word for it.

[seanwitte]

Originally Posted by T3_1565

Has anyone tried connecting the IR sensor to their 2007 bot?? if someone has can you explain how or what it did??

What sort of things can you do with the sensor attacted?

This is only speculation, but it would make the most sense as a way to interact with either the field or the other robots on the field.

They could use it as an analog to the light, so you'd be able to tell whether a robot is on the same alliance or not. The extra connector might be for a transmitter board.

The other option, and probably more likely, is to revisit the IR beacons from a few years ago in a more user friendly way. The connector may provide more IR inputs besides the default one on the board.

On a robot now you can use it to triangulate your position based on two beacons by sweeping it back and forth and tracking the angles where you see the beacons.

[Wayne Doenges]

One of our engineers connected the IR board to a Vex robot. He can control the bot with his DVD remote
It goes forward, stops, rotates left and right using the arrow keys on the remote.
I found this information on the PIC16LF87 chip on the IR board: http://www.tauntek.com/IRMimic-chip-datasheet.pdf

[Richard McClellan]

Our team did the same last weekend

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/29439
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUx2w3J_jDk

It's great to see that this sensor is so easy to use right out of the package, and the range seems to be pretty good. Ours worked from about 50' away, but that's only when the receiver had line of site with our remote.

[sayso_411]

Our Team has successfully programmed and worked the IR with our robot, we tried basic programming like just two controls up and down and were successful in manipulating the robot to move its flipper arms up and down

[popo308]

1625 had there IR board connected to an RC and it was working until some lose wire ends bumps some terminals they were not supposed to touch. (and now we don't have a board that works)

[RKElectricalman]

After setting four buttons into the board's memory, we connected each output-signal wire to it's own white wire to a PWM wire. The black wire, on the pwm wire, should connect the the ground (common) that you used to power the IR board, and the red wire can be left unconnected.

You can connect the PWM wire to any of the digital I/o's. We used 1 - 4, and used the remote to control our flipper.

Just be sure to program it right.. since it's a 100msec 5v+ signal, and the processor loops every 26.2 msecs, you're gonna get a digital value 3 times in one push of a button. Basically, if you're using something that needs to flip-flop between two states, it'll go from 0-1-0 in a push of a button.

[bronxbomber92]

Could you draw a picture or a little instructions for those of us who are a little illiterate in the ways of wiring.............Please