Repeat of... more RoboCam footage, and flying spheres...
I messed up and posted this a second time... but heck, I still think it's fun, and laugh every time I see it. So, here it goes... again...
More HoB RoboCam footage
Here the camera was mounted on a third robot (driven by John Brost - his camera as well), just behind the robots front claws... so ever time it tries to attack an opponent, you can see the claws dropping in front of the camera. The single claw on the robot with the ball caster that can be seen in the video was effective in a surprising way - at one point, it managed to hit the "cancel" button on another robot, shutting it off. Near the end of the video you can also see the effect of earlier prototype Zamor sphere launchers... we were using a friend of ours as a target. The small robot that is seen firing a single shot is completely autonomous: it drives forward, scans for the nearest target, and then reaquires that target and launches a single sphere before retreating back from whence it came.
Something new? Well, now you have an idea of an alternate use of those big colored balls in the NXT kits...
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Brian Davis
More HoB RoboCam footage
Here the camera was mounted on a third robot (driven by John Brost - his camera as well), just behind the robots front claws... so ever time it tries to attack an opponent, you can see the claws dropping in front of the camera. The single claw on the robot with the ball caster that can be seen in the video was effective in a surprising way - at one point, it managed to hit the "cancel" button on another robot, shutting it off. Near the end of the video you can also see the effect of earlier prototype Zamor sphere launchers... we were using a friend of ours as a target. The small robot that is seen firing a single shot is completely autonomous: it drives forward, scans for the nearest target, and then reaquires that target and launches a single sphere before retreating back from whence it came.
Something new? Well, now you have an idea of an alternate use of those big colored balls in the NXT kits...
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Brian Davis
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Brian Davis