Simple maze-solving robot

Posted September 10, 2007 by kym 1 Comment »

I was wandering around the usual haunts, WAITING FOR SOMETHING  — ANYTHING — TO ARRIVE THROUGH THE PARCEL POST (7 orders now outstanding), and came across this at Trossenrobotics.

A couple of servos mounted on a piece of plastic, with the maze created from drinking staws. All the control is programmed in after mondo experimentation, in case you’re wondering. 

Obviously a very easy-to-build setup, but there’s at least 1 extension involving a camera that’d make it interesting for a uni open-day. :)

1 Comment

  • On 09.11.07 ash said:

    So simple yet so cool :)

    Reminded me of this project I saw a while ago. It was innovative in that it used the OpenCV image lib to do the point tracking in order to implement something like the vid above on a PDA!

    There are a lot of other projects on this guy’s site that are worth a look at as well:

    http://www.brains-n-brawn.com/default.aspx?vDir=mceitvsilver