[Master Dictator]

I am part of Mini DARPA which takes place in Penn State Abington. For Mini DARPA it is really on a total different level than FIRST. This makes FIRST building season a walk in the park. So far I have my own autonomous vehicle. Its much smaller than a real car but works the same. It is off a fisherprice car with its 4 motors hooked up on a solid duel axel frame run off a PWMs. The hard part is the programming. I use a Parallax Stamp board to program. For the navigation part, I use GPS to navigate coordinates and when GPS looses signal the program uses a electromagnetic compass to navigate the same direction untill GPS is found again. In addition I use a ultrasonic Ping(( Sensor on a scanning Servo to dodge objects in its path. This is a little run down of my autonomous vehicle. Of course there is more but you guys get the idea. Its more porgramming then mechnical work. Hope this helps to help you guys understand this DARPA compeiton.