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Firefighting robot update
Posted by Erica on Mar 5, 2012 in Electronics, Making
The firefighting robot competition is only a few weeks away, and I’ve been working steadily. Because of the time pressure, there hasn’t been much leisure to blog about it! I’ve accomplished the following tasks, and may write about them later. Partial list includes: Set up wireless communication between the Arduino-controlled robot and a PC running […]
Building a fire-fighting robot
Posted by Erica on Feb 19, 2012 in Electronics, Making
I’ve been looking for a reason to build another robot. A few weeks ago I found a list of robot competitions around the world. Ignoring the battle bot options, geography and capability led to me to the Penn State Abington Fire-Fighting Robot Contest: The objective of the fire-fighting robot contest is to design a computer-controlled […]