It’s been almost two years since I did (or at least started) this project but I never sat down to document it. That’s what I want to do today. As the title says it’s about a little robot based on a RaspberryPi. Like many of its kind it is driven by a pair of stepper motors each driving a wheel directly attached to the respective motor axis. At the back there is another smaller, pivotable wheel to keep the robot in balance.
In my last post of this series I’ve looked at different transducers and finally decided on a entirely waterproof 14mm model. The much lower signal level from those kind of transducers makes it necessary to reduce the distance between the transducers in order to still receive a reasonable signal amplitude. So I took my previous lasercut design and reduced it in size so that the distance between the transducers is only 120mm. I went to the local FabLab and and lasered two copies of the downsized design.
In my last two posts I have gone through my new anemometer circuit both in theory and practice. Click here for an overview over my ultrasonic anemometer project.
