I’ve seen a lot of DIY robots over the last two years since I started this blog, but the Battle Bots are the most completed robots I’ve seen yet. Building these little robots, you’ll learn how to control a robot wirelessly using the Intel Galileo board, how to use sensors to detect if the enemy hits your robot with water, how to use the Arduino motor shield to control the motors, and more.
We live in an age where anyone can build its own robots to play with and share with friends. The Battle Bot is a robotic toys that can be built at home using a 3D printer for body parts, an Intel Galileo board for control and ConnectAnyThing firmware for communication, an Arduino motor shield, and several other components that make the tracked robot a really amazing toy.
If you don’t use until now one of the Intel boards, then it might be time to reevaluate the options to build things and check the variety of features of the Galileo. This time and for this project the Galileo make easier the wireless control of the robot. Featured with an MPCI connector designed to hold a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth card, you can have a wireless connectivity with the robot without using a Wi-Fi shield.
On the software side, the ConnectAnything firmware allows you to control the tracked robot without writing any line of code. The firmware is good enough to run on a mobile device such as iPhone and have a real-time communication tool.
Read more: Key features of Intel Galileo Gen 2
To learn how to setup the Intel Galileo board, how to attach the WiFi card, create the connectivity, and put all pieces together check this project.