Wall Racers Chase Each Other On Invisible Tracks
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 12 of June , 2008 at 2:04 am
This, right here, is why I love robotics. And why I wish I was better at the DIY stuff. These cheap and crappy R/C cars have been outfitted with a few simple sensors and microcontroller brains that enable them to follow walls and avoid obstacles. Apparently the programming is pretty simple, but the results are incredibly cool, especially when you get two of them together:
The logic controlling the cars can obviously be made as complicated as you want, but the great part is that it doesn’t have to be very complicated at all. The designer has started teaching the cars to drift through turns; you can check out some video of that here.
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Comment by imagitronics
Made Saturday, 28 of June , 2008 at 9:56 pm
Lovely, except that the creator of “Wall Racers” wants to charge would-be builders $25 for his Picaxe source code.