Using an Arduino as a robot controller (2010 and beyond?)

[keen101]

I'd really like to do this. The current arduino's are a little small in terms of memory and i/o ports. But, it would be fairly easy to port the arduino bootloader to a bigger AVR processor, and pretty easy to design a ifi "clone" board of sorts. I am working on a design like this in eagle cad, but it is kind of on hold right now. email me if you want the eagle files.

the difference between the IFI systems and the compac rio is betty big. one is capable of running embedded linux.

But, i still think a cheap Robotics based Freeduino should be attempted. It could be used to drive simple robots around from previous competitions. But i think it would be possible to make a freeduino controller that could be just as good as the IFI controllers.

keen101 [at] gmail [dot] com