Robotiky: Make coding into child's play

Re:Robotiky: Make coding into child's play by SeanLuke on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @08:20AM (#7552877)

Those bump sensors would be snapped off in ten minutes in my household. How hard would it have been for them to slap a Sharp Infrared sensor or two on there?

http://www.sharpsme.com/optoelectronics/sensors/distance-mea...

Having come back from Botball, I have to say that overall this robot doesn't feel fully baked.

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Re:Robotiky: Make coding into child's play by salter on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:46AM (#7554093)

Swapping out the bump sensors for IR is something that we really want to do, we just have to finalise the manufacturing details.

The robot shown is just a prototype, the shipped product will have at least the functionality we have stated - and probably a lot more.

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Re:Robotiky: Make coding into child's play by SeanLuke on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:31PM (#7557205)

I'm sorry, but what? This is robot design 101. How could you not have included this in your initial prototype?

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