Trekker Advantages

Do your research before spending a lot of money on a robot! You will not find a better documented robot kit anywhere. Our main focus is to bring you a well designed, flexible,� modular, well documented autonomous robot! Our Trekker manual is over 140 pages and has more than 90 color photos documenting robot building, testing, and operation. We offer a large variety of programs for the Trekker to get you going. Our website host loads of pictures and products explaining what you are getting for the money. We have videos showing some of the many tasks the Trekker can be programmed to do. Most importantly we are not a huge company where you will be treated as a number, we are a small group of engineers that are here to help you with picking the right robot for your application. Please contact us with any questions, comments, or concerns.

We are the proud to be on the top of the OOPic Website's front page. The OOPic is supported by a great group of people on the Yahoo Chat room. There is an officially sanctioned OOPic book that is very well written to help you experiment with the OOPic.

The Trekker was developed because we have purchased several robot kits, and we were always disappointed! The OOPic allows multitasking, which makes Basic Stamp robots obsolete. The modular design and many sensors the Trekker supports makes the Trekker stand out above the other OOPic Robots. The Trekker can be used in many projects including fire seeking, fire fighting, ball seeking, wall following, line following, sumo wrestling, obstacle avoidance, and more!

The SuperDroid Trekker is a roving Robot that uses an OOPic MCU to control and monitor its inputs and outputs. The Robot is similar to the BOE Bot by Parallex. or the roving robots on Lynxmotion, but offer a whole lot more for the money.

• The SuperDroid Trekker can be configured in many different ways. The add-on features of the Ultrasonic sensors, IR detectors, LCD, electronic compass, line following sensors, flame detectors, a large selection of wheels, and bumper switches make the Trekker very versatile. With the large number of OOPic Objects and the optional Trekker Development Board package, many other items can be easily added to the Trekker to personalize it to your needs.
• SuperDroid Robots offers assembly of the Trekker Robot for those that want to get straight to experimenting with the OOPic.
• The Trekker uses an OOPic instead of a Basic Stamp 2. The OOPic has several advantages over the basic stamp.
  • The OOPic is a micro controller designed specifically for robotics.
  • The Oopic uses Industry standard Basic, C and Java syntax., and a Object Oriented. Hardware Control Method Basic Stamp II uses Proprietary language "PBASIC".
  • The OOPic uses allows Multitasking (All Hardware Objects can operate simultaneously). The Basic Stamp is one step at a time control.
  • The OOPic can handle 4096 instructions to 32768 instructions with optional EEPROM Programmed EEPROMs can be removed from the OOPic and stored. This allows different programs to be popped in and out. The basic stamp handles 500 to 600 lines of code.
  • The OOPic can handle more variables Up to 87. (Variables & Objects) Additional data can be stored in I2C EEPROMs and RAMs, the Basic Stamp can handle 32 Bytes (6 for I/Os and 26 for variables)
  • The OOPic has a program execution speed of about 2000 instruction per second, 100,000 Virtual Circuit operations per second.� The Basic Stamp 2 operates at 4000 instructions per second.
  • The OOPIc has the capacity for 31 I/O Lines plus an additional 2 lines for a local I2C Network, The basic stamp 2 has 16 I/O lines
  • The OOPic I has 41 Commands, Functions and Operators., 31 Objects, 71 Properties, 8 Methods. The OOPic II http://www.oopic.com/objlistb.htm offers even more. The Basic Stamp has 36 commands for both flow-control and hardware-control.
  • The OOPic uses I2C protocol via Parallel Port. Communication, the Basic Stamp 2 has a 9600 Baud Serial Port
  • The OOPic can be programmed with virtual circuits http://www.oopic.com/virtcirc.htm , the Basic Stamp can not.
  • The OOPics can be networked together �with up to 128 devices (OOPics and I2Cs) tied together with just 3 wires. (No additional hardware needed for network connections). The Basic Stamp 2 can not be networked.