Collaborative Robot Design Project

[coreyjon]

The immediate plan is to determine interest. Which means I have to sit on my butt for a few days and see how many would seriously consider doing this. This would primarily be for design, and is unlikely that it will be built, although the everyone bring a small peice idea would keep the cost's down, and prove that designing a robot on the web could work. You're right about video conferencing, and keeping it in the same time zone would simplify things, but I would rather not exclude anyone from this experience.

[KenWittlief]

I think it would be fun for school FIRST teams, if they have time and a place to meet all year, to build a robot that gets worked on all year, and the same robot gets improved from year to year, added to, programming, new sensors, vision system, speech synthesis, object manipulation....

I dont know what it would do, what its purpose would be or what tasks/functions it would perform, but with the spare parts from a FIRST kit you could really put together something that is well beyond what most highschool 'robotics clubs' are able to accomplish