Proton Elektor
The Proton Robot electronics magazine Elektor presents a versatile robotic platform that is ideal for students, but also for hobbyists and professionals. The issue Proton Robot is a self-building system that expand simple in many directions. The robot not only offers a wide range of sensors and actuators, but also works with different microcontroller families. The user decides which microcontroller will be used as the heart of the robot and which language will be used.
Features Proton
- US distance sensor
- 8 LEDs for mouth Piezo speaker
- 8 LEDs in body
- 3 IR range sensors
- Motor Driver Module
- 3 Line Sensors
- LED eyes
- 5 RGB LEDs in each eye
- 2 Photo Transistors in the head
- 2 Actuators
- Large blue LCD
- Red and black button
- Grab audio module
The motherboard is equipped with extra I/O-,-signal, RS232, SPI and I2C connectors and there is enough space in the robot to present its projects to build. It would be nice to control the robot with your mobile, via Bluetooth or WiFi. or let robots communicate with each other. Install a camera and work with image recognition or let the robot respond to voice commands. The issue Proton Robot was designed by Bart Huyskens, a passionate lecturer electronics and embedded systems at the St. Joseph Institute in Schoten (B) .
Special website Proton
Elector developed special Proton pages on it's website decorated with more (technical) information, a demo video, blogs, and more support options. Look on www.elektor.nl / proton. Bart Huyskens: "Users of the issue after buying Proton Robot are certainly not abandoned. I'm accessible via forums, support pages, website and e-mail and the user can and will continue to assist and advise ".
The issue Proton Robot kit as well as the completely built and tested robot is to order from: