Ok, So...
Nasa is hosting a robotics competition that our class is gunna be competing in.
The competition is this:
A robot will have to move "moon dirt" from the sand box to a collector. sounds easy right?
well here is more details.
The robot is going to programmed in the C language. the sponsors were nice enough to give us "EasyC" which is supposed to make programming easier. but i suspect we will have the most trouble with that. so what im asking from you guys is:
to brain storm on how to accomplish this task, and help out with the c coding or something. im not sure on all the details because the competition hasent even officially started yet. our school is like 2 months ahead of the rest.
Thanks.
-Syberium







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Anyway, I've used EasyC before, its actualy fairly straight forward, assuming you know C. However, you need to make a subsystem of sensors, servos, recievers, etc. before you even think of programming it. IE, you need the robot before you write the program. Needless to say you need to know what you need to be able to detect/do before you make the robot... The beacon system will be the most interesting. I'd have them emit something at two different frequencies, and since you know how far appart they are, you can use relative strengths to align yourself via triangulation. The whole shoveling thing will be... interesting. How large of a robot are you planning on building? I mean, moving 100 lbs of dirt is quite a task, ignoring that you will have to dump it somewhere specific that happens to be up a ramp... More details please




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