Conference Session

Arduinos, Microcontrollers, Inexpensive Robotics, and Other Tech Bytes

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yan Xu, Del Mar College; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Allen Babb, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

presentations. The research activities took place at the TAMUK roboticslaboratory and one Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty member and his studentassistant, an EECS senior level undergraduate student with extensive hardware as well assoftware expertise, provided close daily supervision, extensive research discussions andmentorship during the research project period. The participating faculty member conceptualized,assembled and tested a quadrotor, shown in Fig. 1, with low cost, light weight, easy to assemble,and suitable for mass production by using commodity products and traditionally availablemachining tools. The majority of hardware configuration and controller code scheduling wereimplemented in the C programming code. An