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Re: FIRST Robotics for the Blind?
Team 237 experimented with a system code named IDAN in 2002 on our robot.

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The electrical team of students and engineers has created a system that would enable independent control of the machine by a visually impaired driver. Code named I.D.A.N. (Intelligent Detection, Analysis and Navigation), the system allows the robot to provide audio feedback to a laptop computer.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...94&postcount=5

It was fun to explore some new grounds with that system that year.
That was probably my favorite year I was in FIRST, just because we tried something completely different that year and it wasn't just about building a robot..
Well.. actually, on our team it never really is only about the robot, but that year was even more unique than other years..

edit: As a side note, there was no main personal reason we did this on the team. We did not have any blind people on the team, or anyone with any kind of visual impairment that year. I really forgot how the concept first started to do that project, but I believe 2002 was the first year that FIRST allowed you to make your own custom electronics board, and it grew from there as to what kind of cool add-on project we could incorporate on the bot.

<moves scanning in the system schematics for I.D.A.N. a little closer to the top of the "to-do" list - I mean, it's only been what? 3 years? >
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