We have a lot of very cool projects that get posted here, so I wanted to mention that Trossen Robotics is holding a project contest on their forums, with a $500 gift card for 1st place! 2nd and 3rd place get gift cards too.
All the info you need to know on the contest can be found here:
Basically you’ll want to document your project in a single post and provide as many pictures and videos as you can.
Contest ends 2/29/08 so get your projects polished up (though a lot of our projects are never truly finished, which is fine) and posted soon if you’re interested in entering.
Im in! I’d love to see what others think of my MARC Robot before I enter it in my provincial fair, and hopefully nationals again (fingers crossed). Im sure I will be able to see some other interesting projects posted as well.
The laser harp project was interesting. I’m currently tinkering with my $2.88 Walmart laser pin to see if I can easily modulate the beam at 38khz to make a triangulation type range finder and object detector.
I was actually tinkering with a lego mindstorms light sensor and when doing the “test me” option I realized you could use a bunch of IR or laser pointers which could make different notes at every touch closer or further from the beam. It reminded me of the laser harp project and is deffinately cool stuff.
I tried registering over there, but no matter how many times I refreshed the image, I could not detect what all the letters were. So, I never got registered. Those images are way harder to read than they need to be to avoid bots.
