Learning to build a robot arm will teach you how to breadboard a circuit, how to program your Arduino, and how to work with moving parts.

An Arduino-based robot for people who don’t know how to build robots "Sparki" ideal for teaching kids (or adults) how to program robots.

Inside the BeatBot an Arduino reads 9 infrared sensors for line detection at 100 samples a second. A digital servo controls the Ackerman steering mechanism to follow the line on the track or floor.

As a line following robot, the performance is pretty crummy. However, as a robot programmed by an AI, it does pretty okay.

The augmented board runs micro-Max source code, enabling chess logic to be executed on an Arduino Mega with room for control functions for a 6DOF robotic arm.

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