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Re: Serenity, an autonomous NXT-based boat
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:02:37 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Brian Davis wrote:
> Well, I blogged about it, and wanted to make sure I shared it with the folks
> that inspired me (LUGNET). I've never been really interested in LEGO boats,
> because in the first place I couldn't see much use for them (guiding a robot
> over featureless water being... somewhat challenging), and in the second place
> an all-LEGO solution was hard to come by... but then LEGO released new sets with
> floating hulls, and I got interested again. so I put together "Serenity", a
> proof-of-concept NXT-based water-craft:
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> /snip
Brian, ... absolutely cool !
I would like to attract your attention to a rather old Italian site (1999).
http://users.libero.it/riccardo.rocca/roboat.htm. Riccardo built a marveleous
non-LEGO robot-boat equipped with electronic compass and GPS and travelling over
the "Idroscalo Lake" near Milano. At that time a pioneer work!
Now you have "Serenity", NXT... all "pure LEGO"; add a third party compass and a
GPS, and you can travel a much bigger lake? But, probably you will need a lot of
serenity to risk your NXT :)
...really cool ! Inspiring !
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| (...) Thank you very much! (...) Actually, there still seem to be relatively few robotic water-craft around, to my surprise. That is an excellent project, and I'd not seen it. I'm also really glad I did not have to go the same route as he did (...) (18 years ago, 13-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Well, I blogged about it, and wanted to make sure I shared it with the folks that inspired me (LUGNET). I've never been really interested in LEGO boats, because in the first place I couldn't see much use for them (guiding a robot over featureless (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-07, to lugnet.robotics) !
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