I rebuilt an old west coast drive train for rookie programming. What do you think I should add to make it more interesting and fun
limelight
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A compressor, tank, and pneumatics control module. Then you could put a tube to a solenoid with a party horn. Great way to teach pneumatics
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Field-relative positioning through non-linear state estimation
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chair
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Make it a battle bot
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Finally developing accurate carpet grain compensation
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any 2015 bot you can find honestly
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bonk
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my favorite use for things like that is training new drivers to be aggressive when driving the robot. We have a really big makerspace with this funky floor material with very little friction so I like running figure-8 drills at top speed so it becomes tokyo drift. It teaches people not to be afraid of controlling the robot (although having someone on the emergency stop is a good idea 
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Mini Zamboni to clean up trash around campus.
Funny story…
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here’s an idea-rig a camera stabilizer to it. even one of the phone ones. then, hit record and drive it around. better yet, put it on a spinning rig with filming at a high frame rate. that will look cool.
itd be like it has eyes.
get something like this (not reco this one specifically, too expensive for a pet project) and just secure it to an arm.
Can confirm. The correct answer is chair.
(just make sure the wheels stay on)
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