Date: 1/20/05

Student Name: Rob Hamersma

TAs: William Dubel

Steven Pickles

Instructor: A. A. Arroyo

University of Florida

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EEL 5666

Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory

Weekly Report 2

This week I received my MAVRIC-IIB board kit and assembled it. I downloaded and installed WinAVR and read the documentation on how to use the compiler, the programmer, the IDE, and the makefiles. I compiled the example code from the BDmicro website and got the LED to blink. I plugged the MAVRIC board into a breadboard and wired it to a 16-digit LCD screen, a battery and a power switch. I modified an LCD header program I had written previously for a different Atmel part to work with the ATMEGA128, and I also added negative and floating point number display functionality. I decided to try to use a camera (probably CMUcam) to detect the ball and the hole, since sonar and IR would probably to finicky and error-prone, especially from long distances.