Puff The Magic Firefighting Dragon
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 13 of April , 2009 at 12:07 am
This fearsome little robot is named Puff, and he fights fires:
Puff wanders around autonomously, avoiding cliffs and obstacles, until he finds a fire. Then, using a fan underneath his chin, he puffs away (quite effectively, it seems) until the fire is out. Puff also has a panic mode, where if he can’t put a fire out after two tries, he flees.
Puff is built on an Arduino tracked platform, while the skin is just a paper cutout that you can download from Canon. A matching body and tail are in the works. Also in the works is some kind of pyro system, so that Puff will be able to start fires as well as put them out. Sounds like fun, but if I were Puff, I’d be a little bit nervous, what with a body made of paper and all.
Video of Puff’s panic mode, after the jump.
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