These were custom robots made for a a one time workshop for high school art students though a program found here. http://camstl.org/programs/youth-teen-programs/nan/. During the workshop we divided roughly 20 students up into 4 groups were each group built a walking robot.
Telepresence has been around for a while, with telerobotics only recently coming into commercial applications. Read more about our DIY version after the jump
I backed the 1Sheeld (yes that's spelled correctly) on kickstarter and it arrived today. Was very easy to get working, though bluetooth seemed a little unstable with my galaxy S3, but my old S1 worked great.
KC Maker Faire was a big success! We had 2 days of fun met many exciting new people. Learned about new ideas and technologies and had a great time doing it.
The following are photos from the event. If you are an AR member and have photos to post please
send them to admin@archreactor.org and I'll get them posted.
Manager: Derek Seigler Team: George, and a cast of may others ... Premise: Take an old RC car that has outlived its usefulness, add an arduino possibly a motor controller, a sensor or two and build an Atonomous vehicle that can navigate a basic track.