SERVO Magazine
ArdBot Expandable Robot Platform
Making Robots with the Arduino
The ArdBot Project is all about Arduino robotics. The ArdBot is an economical and expandable autonomous desktop robot that’s powered by an Arduino Uno (or compatible) microcontroller development board.
Like all expandable robots, the ArdBot is designed as as a permanent work-in-progress. It’s never truly finished, and that includes updates, and finding new and better ways of doing things.
Here's you'll find provides updates, downloadable program code, and alternative designs. See the ArdBot Project errata page for corrections and other minor bits and pieces.
ArdBot Episodes
To get you started with the ArdBot here's the first four (of seven) installments of the Making Robots with the Arduino series, as they appeared in SERVO Magazine. My thanks to the magazine for allowing me to reprint these. The files are in PDF format, and require a compatible viewer program, such as Foxit or Adobe Acrobat.
- Part 1 - Introduction to Making Robots with the Arduino
- Part 2 - Building the ArdBot
- Part 3 - Inside the Arduino
- Part 4 - Getting Feedback with Sensors
Downloadable Program Code
Don't type it! Download it! Get the Arduino sketches for all seven installments of the Making Robots with the Arduino article series.
Right click on a link to save the file to your computer. Unzip the sketch and open in the Arduino IDE.
- Part 1 - Introduction to Making Robots with the Arduino
- Part 2 - Building the ArdBot
- Part 3 - Inside the Arduino
- Part 4 - Getting Feedback with Sensors
- Part 5 - Adding Sensors to Explore the World
- Part 6 - Follow That Line!
- Part 7 - Putting It All Together
Other People's ArdBots
An ArdBot clone meets a three-year-old... (video by Matt Saragusa)