# AstroTinker Bot

> An FPGA-driven miniature robot built for e-Yantra, from RISC CPU up to path planning.

- Year: 2024
- Period: September 2023 – January 2024
- Type: hackathon
- Stack: Verilog HDL, C, DE0-Nano FPGA

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Built for eYRC 2023–24, the e-Yantra robotics competition at IIT Bombay.

- Verilog from the ground up: a ripple carry adder, an FSM-based sequence
  detector, a UART transmitter and receiver, and a RISC CPU.
- Integrated the whole stack with infrared sensors on a DE0-Nano FPGA board.
- A C path-planning algorithm capable of routing between two arbitrary
  specified points, driving drag-and-drop behaviour.