Show HN: Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot(sidg.tl)
sidg.tl
Show HN: Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot
http://sidg.tl/sid
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Thanks! Did you have fun shocking us for Halloween? We've put the lab notes up for that now http://sidigital.co/blog/lab-halloween
I managed to hit 160. The reason 240 is the max score is that you only have enough time to get a maximum of 3 drops (2 is more likely) so you have to aim for the 80 with all 3 drops.
I think a cool spin-off of this would be to create two robots that can duel each other. Either some sort of Rock 'Em Soc 'Em setup (http://www.amazon.com/Rock-Em-Sock-ROBOTS-Game/dp/B00005BY8V) or maybe something like a tamer version of BattleBots.
I made this for a senior design project at UIUC. No web interface though. You controlled the robots via wireless sensors I designed to be worn on your arms.
Wow that's cool, what robot are you guys using? Did you build the robots yourselves? If so, where did you get parts etc.? And how does the system know when a ball is dropped through a specific hole, which then displays an animation with amount of points?
It's a Lynxmotion AL5A you have to assemble it yourself. We have 8 lever switches under the staging area we built connected to the GPIO pins on the Pi. When the Pi recognises a switch push it tells the nodejs server which passes it on to everyone.
We will post full lab notes explaining everything in detail like we did for our Halloween experiment soon!
We will post full lab notes explaining everything in detail like we did for our Halloween experiment soon!
Very nice, cool build!
Pretty cool that Bryan Cranston (Walter White from Breaking Bad) is in the top 10 as well (shared first place).
Edit - Oh, you can just enter any twitter username without validation, my bad :)
Edit - Oh, you can just enter any twitter username without validation, my bad :)
Yer we are pretty popular in the White House and the Vatican
And now, what shall we use to conduct this beautiful current with, hm? What one particular element comes to mind, hm?
Ooooh, wire.
Ooooh, wire.
We want Sid back, bring him back to us! :D
Fighting off a DDOS attack at the moment :(
He is back and I am 45th in the queue, thanks and congrats for this cool project.
This is really cool and great execution
If you're ever in stockholm, hit me up!