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In lugnet.org.us.indylug, David Gregory wrote:
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IndyLUG participated in the Parent & Child Exposition this past weekend (Feb.
28-29) at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Part of our setup included a table
with Steve Hassenplug’s AWESOME Connect 4 robot.
This robot does everything on its own, except press its own start
button. It waits for you to drop your chip, finds where you put it, then
drops its own and verifies that if fell properly. Yes, that’s right, I said
it drops its own chips! It isn’t slow either. Both the strategic
decisions and the chip dropping mechanism are quick and flawless.
Pictures
of the Connect 4 robot (and the large crowds that it drew) can be found here:
Brickshelf gallery
The robot was kept busy all Sunday by children and adults alike...and all day
it continued to skunk children and adults alike. The robot suffered 2
defeats the entire day.
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A few other people claimed to win, but I was always able to quite their
celebrations by showing them the robot had already won (somewhere they didn’t
see!)
I’m still finishing up the web page, where I hope to include some interesting
info like drawings (MLCad), and maybe some source code. But, for now, I don’t
want to take apart the robot enough to create the drawings :)
I’m working on a design for a Connect-Four playing robot that just uses parts
from a single Mindstorms kit. But that’s still a little ways off.
But, here you can see some links to pictures, and a bit of text:
http://www.teamhassenplug.org/robots/fullcontact/
Steve
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