Over the last year, I've had the pleasure of helping found the Duke Combat Robotics Team. This last weekend featured our first event: the Duke Battle Bots Hack-a-thon. Groups of students came together and designed, built, and competed with robots over the course of a single, caffeine-induced weekend. Check out the article about us here. Are you a Duke Student interested in joining? Click here.
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I should note here that I plan on doing full projects with C-STEMbian in the future, when I have both the time and inspiration. However, the software is both cool, easy to use, and relatively unknown. UC Davis has created an entire operation system (the base is Raspbian), which can control a LEGO EV3 or Mindstorm via Bluetooth. This allows the seamless integration of your old LEGO robots (and more importantly their sensors) into your overall system. Furthermore, it comes wrapped in a pretty package which can be mobile! The LEGO systems are quite robust, and there are numerous examples of projects online that take advantage of their systems. Oh, and the C-STEMbian is capable of running multiple robots simultaneously. You could be just a couple long nights away from having your own LEGO robot swarm doing laundry, cooking you dinner, and maybe taking over the world.
A nice table of the resistor band codes. Many thanks to Resistor Guide.
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