Who
This bot was made possable by a number of people. It was contructed by Rue_mohr. Kate' and timmarthy helped with code, the irc bot is compliments of wildmage and his helpers. Rifraf helped with some debugging.
What
This is a small robot running an AVR processor, commands are fed to it via a serial cable. See its construction page at robo.html. In the future, it is hoped that this robot will obtain some manipulators to interact with its world a little more.
Code used in the making of this robot can be found at code/. No code was harmed in the making of this robot.
Why
Robots are really fun. Great satisfaction can be found in getting one up and going. The goal of this robot is to be able to do remote construction while people are not physically at the shop, obviously,right now, its only capable of moving around. But like rcy would say "Adding more features is just Bing! Bang! Boom! and your done!"
When
This robot went online Aug 28 2005.
Where
This robot is located in BC Canada, on the workbench. The irc presence of this robot is Nirrec, who can be found in #robotics of freenode irc servers.
How
Only people who helped with its development get to drive and play with it. Its not too late for you to help!, Rue_Mohr is quite open to suggestions and help with the robot. Donations need not be more than some improved web pages for it. The irc robot currently has the following command set :
$bot1 command sends a command to the first robot.
$url shows the url for this page.
Command is one of the following:
- fd d
- forward
- bk d
- backward
- rt a
- right turn
- lt a
- left turn
- cl q
- close gripper
- op q
- open gripper
Where d is the distance in mm, q is an amount in completely arbitrary units, and a is an angle in degrees.
For example, to make the bot go forward 1cm: $bot1 fd 10