The maze solving robot based on the Freedom FRDM-KL25Z and Pololu Zumo shield has new features:
FRDM-KL25Z Robot on Practice Area
Finally I have found some time over the past week-end to enhance my Zumo robot. After I had my line following robot based on the Pololu Zumo chassis and the FRDM-KL25Z, I thought it should be easy and logical to solve a maze. Logical: yes. Easy: not that much. In fact it took me longer than expected. As always, there are a lot of tiny and important problems to solve (the maze alone was easy 🙂 ).
Zumo in the maze
With the Zumo I have a base platform for cool robotics applications. So why not build a line following robot with this? Especially as Pololu offers a reflectance sensor array for it. The result is: I have a line following robot 🙂
Line Following ZumoBot
It turned out that things were not working out of the box with the FRDM-KL25Z board. So if you want to do the same thing, here are some tips how to make it working with the Freedom board.
The cool thing with the Freedom board is: there are many exciting Arduino boards out there which want to be used with the FRDM-KL25Z. I have spent most of my last week-end with creating a little black beauty:
FRDM Zumo Robot
MCU on Eclipse 