Note: we have raced robots and built nanocopters -- this years project is still up in the air. More soon.
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OK, now you have some good hacking skills - now let's take them to the next
level:
The project will pull on all the skills you have developed so far but
will provide a set of new skills needed to do cross development and
embedded systems programming and debugging. This completes the hackers
toolkit that you can be proud of. We will do
distributed programming using sockets, mutable threads for embedded
Linux.
This year (2014) we are programming nancopters and controlling them with hand gestures using the leap motion device, as shown below. This should be fun. The nanocopters run an embedded OS called RTOS.
You can write leap and copter control code on your laptop and run code
directly on the nano copter itself. We want you to do a baseline
project of flying your copter "hands free" around a room (e.g., LSC
200) and then come up with some fancy moves yourself. The final demo
will be the nancopters taking the Green. Projects will be teams of two.
See the project page for detailed up to date information regarding the project.
Prize: The best project team win a nanocopter and leap each!
We use to race robots prior to 2014
We
have
added a mote sensor to the bot that allows it to interact with a
sensor network built across the CS department. We have also added a
camera to the bot. You will write the controller that runs on your
laptop and the server side on the rob - all in C and Linux. Once your
ready your bot will go on a treasure hunt. The final task is the
CS50
remote controlled bot race.
There are no lectures during the last two weeks of the course.
During this time you will be working in teams programming Gracia
robots.
The project page for robot racing can be found here.
We use this for all project information -- please
refer to the project page for the latest information.
Some photos from the "battle robotica" over previous years.
And, first up the cs50 w11 race.
Matt at the
start line of the first semi-annual CS50 bot race. One your marks, get
set, ....
A
CS50 Garcia bot with a wireless sensor (the gray thingy at the top)
and a camera (the eye). Some
more pictures
from last terms demo or die day.
