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Supermensch · 10-06-2012, 06:04

I'm not sure if your looking for some sort of snap circuitry kit, or an assortment of common parts to get you started in electronics, but, if you mean the latter, Bitsbox do a selection kit;

http://bitsbox.co.uk/select.html#ElectronicsClub

Aaron- · 13-06-2012, 01:31

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Originally Posted by Supermensch

I'm not sure if your looking for some sort of snap circuitry kit, or an assortment of common parts to get you started in electronics, but, if you mean the latter, Bitsbox do a selection kit;

http://bitsbox.co.uk/select.html#ElectronicsClub

Wow, that's perfect for what I need!
I am currently making small puppet theatres and I was thinking about seeing if I could make my own lighting circuits and the likes for them!

Thank you ever so much! =)

-Aaron

Supermensch · 13-06-2012, 01:35

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Originally Posted by Aaron-

Wow, that's perfect for what I need!
I am currently making small puppet theatres and I was thinking about seeing if I could make my own lighting circuits and the likes for them!

Thank you ever so much! =)

-Aaron

Aww that sounds cool

Good luck with it.

Knifey Spoony · 01-07-2012, 23:13

Thought I might post about my final year project here.

Me and another guy built a maze solving robot for it. It is controlled using two Arduinos in a master/slave setup and uses ultrasonic sensors to locate walls in the maze. It has onboard smart battery charging circuitry and communicates via Bluetooth with a computer where it displays a map of the maze, through the use of a GUI using Processing, as it discovers walls. And just for the crack we built some manual control into it so that it can be controlled wirelessly with a PlayStation controller and you can see where it is going with an onboard camera.

Almost drove us mad in the end and was only finished about an hour before the deadline, but it worked amazingly well. There's a video of it below solving the maze using left wall following which is a bit of an unintelligent algorithm, but it normally uses the much more intelligent Flood Fill algorithm in order to find the shortest path from the start to any user selected point in the maze selected using the GUI. Don't have a video of it using Flood Fill yet though. Anyway:

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10-06-2012, 06:04	#16
Supermensch Registered User Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 234 Adverts \| Friends	I'm not sure if your looking for some sort of snap circuitry kit, or an assortment of common parts to get you started in electronics, but, if you mean the latter, Bitsbox do a selection kit; http://bitsbox.co.uk/select.html#ElectronicsClub

01-07-2012, 23:13	#19
Knifey Spoony Registered User Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: In a glass case of emotion! Posts: 1,141 Adverts \| Friends	Thought I might post about my final year project here. Me and another guy built a maze solving robot for it. It is controlled using two Arduinos in a master/slave setup and uses ultrasonic sensors to locate walls in the maze. It has onboard smart battery charging circuitry and communicates via Bluetooth with a computer where it displays a map of the maze, through the use of a GUI using Processing, as it discovers walls. And just for the crack we built some manual control into it so that it can be controlled wirelessly with a PlayStation controller and you can see where it is going with an onboard camera. Almost drove us mad in the end and was only finished about an hour before the deadline, but it worked amazingly well. There's a video of it below solving the maze using left wall following which is a bit of an unintelligent algorithm, but it normally uses the much more intelligent Flood Fill algorithm in order to find the shortest path from the start to any user selected point in the maze selected using the GUI. Don't have a video of it using Flood Fill yet though. Anyway: