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Originally posted by miketwalker
Wow, that's really cool... from what I see, if you purchased the circuit boards and sensors and all, you could probably build all of that for relatively cheap if you used old robotics parts, and it seems like a really good project to work on just to learn things... I subscribed to the mailing list... I'd recommend for others to check that site out and look around, everything is open-source which is really cool so you can see exactly how they designed and built it.
I seen something similer to this at the Purdue Cal Campus, it had a nice detection rate from the sensors, they worked well, the program was very complex however. The automation would be tuff. The overall design can probabally be done using a basic stamp, maybe some one will try building one in FIRST. It sound like a fun project, I don't think it would be that hard.

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