Off-season project ideas?

[Bongle]

Originally Posted by Mike

That easy, huh?

Ahahahahahahaha

That's really all the materials he needs for a basic one. The coding portion will probably be difficult, but he shouldn't physically need anything more to make a low-speed reckoning system. All I meant is that he doesn't need a working robot or lots of space to test this basic one. But nobody cares about a programmer's pain, so to a non-programmer team-leader, that IS how easy it is. You drop it off, and come back a month later and hopefully he did it.

Just realized I totally forgot about wheel-turn counters. You can use them too (in fact, they're much better since they aren't measuring the 2nd derivative of your location). But you'd still only need a rolling robot chassis, not a powered robot or lots of space for that.

Copied Idea #8:
Make a home-made wii controller and hook it to the OI like 1846 did at GTR. I'm not sure how controllable it is/was compared to the normal joysticks, but hey: technology for technology's sake.

Ridiculously hard idea #9 (requires medium-difficulty idea #5):
Once you've made your parabolic acoustic-homing microphone and it works, have its analog results stream in via the ADC and implement some fast fourier transforms on a buffer of that data. Once you've done that, experimentally determine power spectrums for crowd noise and remove. Once you've done that, have your scouts record the power spectra for various robots and upload them to your robot so that it can distinguish between a robot sent to interfere with it against the robot it is actually targeting for a hit.