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By: Ian Curtis
New: 18-11-2005 16:54
Updated: 18-11-2005 16:54
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Introducing VideographerBOT, a realization of a dream when I was a little kid to build a Mindstorms robot that could see if Santa showed up at night and take pictures of him or the gift giver.
It's a revision of my old team's last year FLL robot. I moved the RCX to the back and altered the front cavity to allow for the placement of a video camera. Tommorow is one of Maine's two FLL tournaments, so I'm going to drive it around one of the practice tables. I might write a program to make it move around the table, but providing I haven't seen this years table, I'll probably just use the remote. : p
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19-11-2005 12:29
artdutra04
Re: pic: VideographerBOT
This is cool! 
It looks like something that I would do*. 
Cameras mounted on small robots get some pretty interesting footage - especially in crowded areas when people aren't expected a robot. Just make sure that no one walks off with the robot, camera and all. 
*Well, I didn't do it, bit our team did something similar a few weeks ago with our team's Squarebot. We put a omni-wheel on the back, so we could pop wheelies, while continuing to drive forward. Part of our high school was shaped in a giant square, so we were able to pop a wheelie going all the way around the school. 
19-11-2005 12:37
Greg Marra
Re: pic: VideographerBOT
Oh man, I bet that's even harder to interface with than the CMUCam
I should talk my team into doing that. It'd create some cool stock footage for videos, I would think.
19-11-2005 16:28
Ian Curtis
Re: pic: VideographerBOT
Well, I just got back from the tournament and am in the process of editing the video. The footage from the FLL Field is crazy, how cool it looks, and it also provided some fun chasing it around with the FRC robot trying to "capture" it with a tetra.
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