Every year, each of my robotics students turns their robots into a line-follower. The robot we use is the "Mouse", which is manufactured by Robodyssey Systems. By adding a couple of Robodyssey's infrared proximity sensors to the Mouse, the robot can be programmed to follow a black line. (Each ...
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With Robodyssey's Hack-A-Toy kit, the remote-controlled Robosapien is converted into an autonomous robot. My students and I rewired Robosapien so it would respond to our BX-24 microcontroller commands rather than the remote control. (We added a switch so we could toggle between autonomous-mode ...
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Here is a very simple demonstration of a gripper hand made by Robodyssey Systems. The Gripper is controlled by the BX-24 microcontroller. The BX-24 is manufactured by NetMedia and is programmed using their BasicX language. I am using Robodyssey's RAMB II motherboard to interface with the BX-24...
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Three of my students (Chun Wang, Checkie Chu, and Eric Engelhardt) have modified a Robodyssey Roach robot for the International Firefighting Competition at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. They call their robot Flash. This is the first time weve entered a walking robot. Eric and Checkie test the...
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The VP of Robodyssey Systems, Brian Patton, and I got together one night to have a little sumo wrestling competition. Don't get me wrong; he and I certainly didn't don our Mawashi and wrestle each other! Rather, we programmed our robots to do the dirty work. The arena was simply a piece of whi...
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For their winter term exam, two of my students, Gil Censits and Scott Hayden, programmed their Mouse robots to be sumo wrestlers. The arena is simply a white board, the edge of which was lined with black electrical tape. If a robot is pushed (or wanders) out of the arena, it loses of that match...
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My student, Omar Mustardo, has turned his Mouse robot into a line-follower. After adding a couple of Robodyssey's infrared proximity sensors to the Mouse, Omar programmed his robot to follow a black line. (Each IR proximity sensor is made up of two IR LEDs and an IR transistor. The emitted inf...
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Three of my students (Chun Wang, Checkie Chu, and Eric Engelhardt) have modified a Robodyssey Roach robot for the International Firefighting Competition at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. They call their robot Flash. This is the first time weve entered a walking robot. Here, the guys are testin...
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Three of my students (Chun Wang, Checkie Chu, and Eric Engelhardt) have modified a Robodyssey Roach robot for the International Firefighting Competition at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. They call their robot Flash. This is the first time weve entered a walking robot. Here, the guys are buildi...
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Two of my students (Omar Mustardo and Ludovic Gonclaves) and I challenged Dave Peins and Brian Patton (Robodyssey System's President and Vice President) to an autonomous Robosapien Sumo Wrestling match. We hacked the Robosapien toys and added a Sharp IR sensor to its chest and downward-looking I...
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