[Yaaarc] re: ThinkGeek Robotic Christmas Items

[Erik Kauppi]

Yes it is a fun idea.
Hard to do with a PIC or Atmel though.  They can be USB devices 
easily enough but it's a lot tougher to be a USB host.  On the other 
hand if we could find the right connections inside the rocket 
launcher we could bypass the USB mess.

Remember the Open Source Robot Platform that was shown a few meetings 
ago?  It had cameras and a gun mount that was pretty good at tracking 
things, altho it was not firing anything.  Of course it had a Linux 
box with USB to handle the cameras.  Probably easy to add the rocket 
launcher to that.....
http://orpp.sourceforge.net/

Or how's this?
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/02/80_tank_robotics_platform_from.html

Happy Holidaze to all.

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At 12:55 PM 12/21/06, Janet Plato wrote:
>That's a really cool idea.
>
>A couple of janbot, flutterbot, vex robots
>with a target and USB missile launchers.
>
>Put them in a ring with other robots with
>sonar trying to get into position to aim and
>shoot at each other...
>
>Yes, I know, it's beyong what is likely to
>happen in the near term, but it's fun to
>think about.

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