At this point it's strictly a hobby and mainly just to learn .....it's crazy fun.
My end goal is to research and experiment with Video Image analysis using MatLab software. Interfacing a CCD video camera that can capture objects being moved after the program has begun. Feedback data is sent to the controller from MatLab and the robot re-calibrates itself to compensate while running it's program.
A friend of mine did some work on this while in University. It was so amazing, trying to fool the robot by moving the block and it was like you were trying to steel a piece of candy from a child or something. Regardless of where you move an object for the robot to grab, the robot followed and still picked up the object. Pretty old school stuff actually, they first did this back in the early 80's...... but it's lots of fun regardless.
So, we'll see how it goes.
-Gerry