Quote Originally Posted by dragons_fire View Post
it doesnt have to be perfect, its just for fun.,.. im thinking that although i love the size of this thing, it might be a tiny bit too small for experimenting with all this stuff...
Well, you could always go vertical with the PCBs, stack them with interconnecting header pins for power and use some IR emitter/detector pairs to communicate data, or whatever...then again, that might make the thing too tall to go under stuff...

Skimask, thats exactly the same thing i was talking about.. haveing a bunch of base stations around, that all emit different pulses, and have the robot decode that, and triangulate where it is...
Might be a bit of an MCU intensive process, might involve floating point math, then again, might be able to make it 'just good enough' and not 'perfect'.

As far as the PIC goes, the only thing I see limiting is program space. And when that happens, you could do what I said earlier, offload some processing to a daughterboard vertically stacked.

This almost sounds like too much fun! I outta be building one myself...as soon as my 'lab' in the basement gets done.