Chibots

Spring Chibotica 2008 has come and gone. This year's Spring Chibotica was generously co-sponsored by the Moraine Valley Community College. 

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Solarbotics Sumovore kit with a Stamp Stack for the processor.

A stamp stack is a replacement for the Basic Stamp BS2. It is cheaper and has a serial connector right on the board. It is much bigger, and looks kind of goofy, but until you become an expert, looks often take a back seat!

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Stock Parallax Sumo  Bot

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Parallax Sum Bot.

Gotta start somewhere!

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A recent aquisition by James B. Conant's Electronics Club. Currently in Humanoid form, and now we are trying to figure out how to program the darn thing! Any help is welcome. Conant's E-club meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 6:00, or whenever Mr. LeBlanc, our sponsor has time.

We are looking for programs and (GOOD!) documentation as the included information is somewhat lacking. Mr. LeBlanc can be reached at eleblanc@d211.org 

A slightly modified MINDSTORMS NXT Tribot with two light sensors.  The program I will use for Chibotica is a heavily modified version of the Smoothfollow program found at www.nxtprograms.com. Thanks to Dave Parker, the creator of the site, for the concept.

BoeBot with homebrew  line follower.

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USB bot uses the USB Laptop I/O board.

At this time,  the robot is primariy controlled by a PC.

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Blue Bot 2.0 uses a ethernet Laptop I/O board to interface the Everex Cloudbook to the robot.

The entire robot is controlled via a ethernet connection to the on-board laptop.  The on-board laptop connects directly to the camera's via USB.