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Re: Voyager... GPS guided autonomous outdoor LEGO robot
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Date: 
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:04:22 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, John Brost wrote:
A while ago I watched as Steve Hassenplug started building and testing an
outdoor GPS guided LEGO robot to compete in a RoboMagellan contest he called the
Green Monster.  It was great fun watching it drive outdoors.  After some gentle
prodding, I decided to give it a shot for myself.  Voyager is the result.
Here's the NXTLOG page about it:

http://mindstorms.lego.com/nxtlog/ProjectDisplay.aspx?id=0084709f-625a-4816-aabb-98291610c18b

I recently managed to rid it of its R/C leash and go fully autonomous using
RobotC and a BT GPS receiver.  Here's a video of it driving a course I defined
with flags.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhpetNNnMw


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John

That was fantastic!

Spotlighted for sure!

Dave K



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A while ago I watched as Steve Hassenplug started building and testing an outdoor GPS guided LEGO robot to compete in a RoboMagellan contest he called the Green Monster. It was great fun watching it drive outdoors. After some gentle prodding, I (...) (16 years ago, 29-Apr-08, to lugnet.robotics)  

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