Defcon Robot Wars?

[murakami]

Chassis info

Found this web page by a T-4 paraplegic that is building a wheelchair/robot. Lots of good pictures and annectodal information on building a robust platform. Enjoy!

http://www.fatnfast.com/robot

[murakami]

sony eyetoy or toysight?

I'm not a gamer, console or otherwise, but I saw the sony EyeToy in an magazine and with a little googling I found SightToy for Macs. Its sorta of a HID via webcam.

As a peripheral, I think its just a webcam. What's interesting is that the software has implemented realtime or just real fast edge detection frame-by-frame.

Trolling through source forge turned up nothing specific other than the usual computer/robot vision stuff (a bunch of it for mindstorms). I gues this thing is too new for any published hacks.

Does anyone have one of these things or played with them?

[mindstorm]

I would love to see something like this happen, one preference i can think of that i would like to see:

* Control via PocketPC device via Wifi or IrDA. This way perhaps the robots logic will not have to be all onboard but can be on the remote side. As a fail-over there can be a robot-side logic that can take over in case of connection interruption.
I think this would be the best route for a higher-class robot, of course user milage will vary. I think this would make it easier on the side of the programming as well, one could fesibly use and programming language or a mixture of them. dotNET seems to be getting pretty functional.

Just throwing around my idea's, hope it spawns more of them and better ones.

[DISINGENUOUS]

Does anyone have one of these things or played with them?

We have as part of a purchase order three of these on order for the shop. So at some point, I'll be playing with one.

I believe they work muc in teh same way as a light gun, sampling X frames/sec, compairing frame and reletive positions of you in relation to the super-imposed images on screen.

We'll see.

[murakami]

Just to bump the thread and give the folks who didn't qualify for the DARPA competition an alternative event, I present:

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The International Robot Racing Federation
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http://www.irrf.org/

[mage2]

rules

Any ideas on what the final word on the rules for the robot wars will be? I would like to know so I can start working on the bot. I know there is alot of talk about it but anything set in stone?
Just wondering.. I probily missed something.


mage2