Innovative and Unusual Robotics

[mechanicalbrain]

I used wire coils from a bunch of hard drive to make a medium power electromagnet. I was inspired when my friend made a rail gun for a school project but nothing ever came of my tinkering. Lets see..... um..... oh yeah! I made an external wireless antenna for my computer out of paper clips and a Popsicle stick.

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain

I used wire coils from a bunch of hard drive to make a medium power electromagnet. I was inspired when my friend made a rail gun for a school project but nothing ever came of my tinkering. Lets see..... um..... oh yeah! I made an external wireless antenna for my computer out of paper clips and a Popsicle stick.

haha niice.

[Cuog]

I've always wanted to try and get the recycled handheld devices they always have at those stores(oh what i could build with a few old PDAs and sonehobby motors.

But for inovative stuff our team is building a robotic dolly with numerous attachements. We are going to use the camera that FIRST gave in the KOP to have a turret with a marshmelow gun auto aim at colors, and there may be GPS tranking equiped depending on if our school will give us one of the old laptops they dont use anymore. Plus a webcam attached to that computer which will have basic controls over the drive motors so we can drive it wirelessly via an ad-hoc network.