urgently help neede regarding line follower..

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lovebots
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i am new in robotics nd i have made a manual bot. now i want to participate in a contest which demands making a line follower with help of 8051 development board. so some1 can plsss give me some idea abt this development board, nd what is programmer??

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thnk u sir...but some queries are there

hi sir, thnk u for ur post...it was vry helpful.
i hv bought at89s52 development board for building a line follower as given in the link u hv suggested above. there r some questions regarding that.
1. i hv to give power to this development board with 10v adapter?
2.since m using development board..is thre ne need to follow the circuit dia of ic's...or should i just connect motors,sensors etc to their places nd programm my microcontroller
3.programmer is a hardware part or it's a software??
nd again thnk u for ur post sir :)

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Hi lovebots,   Check this

Hi lovebots,

 

Check this link for basic definition of development board - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor_development_board.

Programmer is used to write/load/burn the program (which you will write in your computer) onto the microcontroller.

For more info regarding line follower check this - http://www.botskool.com/tutorials/electronics/8051/line-follower