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Learning PID values using simulated annealing
This is a video of a robot based on the Pololu 5" robot chassis that automatically improves its PID constants over time.
Featured link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdquX0lPlYY
Motion simulator chairs
Jrk 12v12s are used as part of two-degree-of-freedom motion-simulator chairs (sim chairs) in this project posted to the XSimulator forums. Here is a video of some initial testing using the Jrk Configuration Utilty:
For more details see the forum post.
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Sound-Following 3pi Robot
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This sound-following 3pi robot uses three Electret microphone breakout boards and two 74HC4052 multiplexers. Here is a video of the robot in action:
For more details, see this thread on the Pololu forum.
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Waiter Robot
Waiter Robot can make a “Robot Bar” for your next exhibition, show, private event, or sales promotion. They use Pololu 3pi Robots to deliver food and drinks in an remarkable way. Update: The original site for this project is no longer accessible, so we have removed the link.
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Micromouse 3pi Robot Video
This video shows a heavily-modified 3pi that uses distance sensors and encoders along with a flood-fill algorithm to find the shortest path through a walled Micromouse maze. The robot is described in more detail in this forum post.
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Robot Zero: a fast line follower for beginners
This excellent guide from C.I.r.E. (Club de Informática, robótica y Electrónica) shows in detail how to build a fast (> 2 m/s) line-following robot from scratch, and it makes use of a number of Pololu products.
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Home-made m3pi robot controlled by Bluetooth keyboard
This project by Kazuhiro Ouchi (in Japanese) shows a 3pi robot with an ARM mbed controlled by Bluetooth keyboard.
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Otimização Do Algoritmo De Maze Solver Para O Robô Pololu 3pi
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Customer Ana Paula Almeida wrote this Portuguese-language paper about the 3pi Robot (1MB doc) as part of a Master’s program in Computational Modeling and Industrial Technology. The paper describes the 3pi in general and specifically how to write optimized maze-solving code.
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mbed.org m3pi cookbook
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This mbed.org cookbook page will help you get started using your m3pi robot with an mbed development board as your high-level robot controller.
Featured link: http://mbed.org/cookbook/m3pi
AIRbot
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AIRbot is a robot that can be controlled by a cellphone and can send images back to the cellphone. It uses a yellow RP5 tracked chassis, a transparent clear RP5 expansion plate, and a qik 2s9v1 dual serial motor controller along with the AIRcable S.D.K. and the AIRcable OptiEyes. The source code (both AIRcable and Nokia) and circuit diagrams are freely available.
Featured link: http://wiki.opensensors.org/airbot
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