Top DECK Fire Fighting Robot Build Part I - George School 08

In this video I follow four of my students (Kohei Muto, Eric Engelhardt, Clark Gaudry, and David Bernstein) as they build and program a small robot to autonomously navigate a maze, locate a flame, extinguish the flame, and then get back "home". In robotics, the word autonomous means "independent" or "having the ability to operate on one's own". The robot you see here is not a remote controlled device. Rather, my students program the robot's BX-24 microcontroller brain to react to stimuli in real time.

In April 2008, these students will take their robot to fire fighting competitions at Penn State Abington and Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Robodyssey Systems manufactures the Mouse robot and RAMB II motherboard you see here. The robot's brain is NetMedia's BX-24 microcontroller, which is programmed using the BasicX language. I am the author of the world's only BasicX textbook; if you are interested in learning how to program your own robot, see my website at www.basicxandrobotics.com.

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[tanner1029]

ooo 20 milli seconds!

[odomc]

To clarify, the raw values from the IR range finder come in much faster than 20ms. However, Eric decided to convert the raw sensor values to actual distances. This math is pretty hefty, so the calculation requires about 20ms.

[johnet326]

Interesting to watch the process students go through. Do students have programming experience when they start this course?

High school for me was boring, nothing like this existed in the 60's.

Hope to attend the Trinity College challenge one of these days. Thanks for sharing.

[Kickhard66]

@tenkikun actually i did end up reprogramming it so it was entirely autonomous. we went to the room standing by itself first. 

[Spazum888]

milly seconds....

[sirpau1]

Nice :) Check out my bot on my channel and let me know what you think. It's based on the Trinity College fire fighting robot challenge. Works 8 out of 10 times (2/10 times the servo changing direction of the distance sensor is too slow for the bot...the wheels move too quick).

[pingolve]

nice :) i want one my self

[tenkikun]

lol is it ok to just tell it to do turns? isnt it supposed to look for itself?

[psychosmiley794]

cool, im gonna make an rc mouse, just gut out an rc car and a pc mouse and put the guts of the rc car into the mouse ;)

[xxBiohazardHackerxx]

hey man great work

awesome robot

can you please tell me any website or some ebook to learn making robots ?

coz im really interested on robots

thank you

[Yowzow]

uhhh, thats a good thing right?

[McClover]

i want to got here! =(