GSAI Fire Fighting Robot Build Part I -- George School 2008

In this video I follow Ludovic Goncalves, as he programs his 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.

Ludovic is one member of a three-person team (Checkie Chu and Chun Wang are the other two) that will enter their robot in two fire fighting competitions at Penn State Abington and Trinity College in Hartford, CT, this April 2008.

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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[MsFunnyBiz101]

wow -_-

[dukkih]

real nerds