Comments on: Drive a robot in Australia over the web

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:06:12 +0000

I live in Australia, and I didn’t have to wait at all it’s
quite a fun little experience.

By: gm

gm — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:51:06 +0000

I took a run-up at one of the rock walls:

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6915/bpexplorer21331hz0.jpg

By: sprocket

sprocket — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:09:59 +0000

I've driven these now a few times, there was a while when one of the cars had a blacked out screen due to a broken video camera, i also managed to make the camera freeze after ramming it off the bridge,

By: MichaÃ«l

MichaÃ«l — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:19:50 +0000

Its indeed some plastic foil dome. I saw it clearly driving onto one of the bridges

By: hutch

hutch — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:48:03 +0000

Anyone know if it’s outdoors? I presumed it was in a dome or something…
Tried queueing for 2.5 hours once and got to 5 mins then bumped to 1.5 hours, then finally when time was up I got told the ‘show’ was closed for the day. Damn other-side-of-world-ers.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:31:20 +0000

Yeah, bp has solar panels on their roof which charge big batteries.

Then they use those big batteries to charge the robot's smaller batteries.

(Ever seen a solar powered torch? It's just recharging a battery)

By: Confused

Confused — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:53:30 +0000

I’m confused — the robots are currently unavailable because they are being recharged by solar panels — at night. Is BP also the world’s leading provider of screen doors for submarines?

By: Mr. Mediocre

Mr. Mediocre — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:54:38 +0000

This thing is pretty lame, I sat and waited for 2+ hours like most others, only to get huge lag for four minutes, and thats it… Plus if you look at the live feeds the sky is totally faked.

Good day.

By: Odin

Odin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:15:52 +0000

I’m glad that they posted this. This is very interesting (from a robot controls viewpoint) and I’m glad I didn’t need to scour the net for it.

By: Vulpyra

Vulpyra — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:45:10 +0000

I had a go on this, was brill! Reaper it is real, it’s set inside a big warehouse or something, you can see the sky is just painted on sheets or whatever because there are creases in it. It’s set indoors, with huge lights over it, for obvious reasons. Why would they advertise solar energy at night? :D I didnt bother getting any codes, just had fun making an ass of myself and running into as many other rovers as possible for a couple of minutes. Had about a 4 hour wait in the queue, just minimized it and went on with my work, kinda like ebay auctions! :P Btw, everyone who complains about hackaday: shush.

By: srimech

srimech — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:52:44 +0000

I had a similar idea some time ago, making a real-life racing game between two or more RC cars. Trouble is the upstream speed on ADSL is too slow to send multiple video streams.

By: Reaper

Reaper — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:33:44 +0000

And what the hell is going on with capitols??

By: Reaper

Reaper — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:43:37 +0000

G'day,
Being from Australia I can tell you this ploy from BP is a complete fraud!.

At the time of writing this it is night time Australia wide and I am 112 in line and watching a live feed of the robot in "daylight"... it will still be cool to drive a little robot though
Cheers,
Pete

By: pelrun

pelrun — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:09:26 +0000

It seems that *any* blog that lasts more than a year or so suddenly fills up with whiners who complain about how shitty the site has become. Geez, grow up guys – go somewhere else, or only read the entries you’re interested in.

As for this entry… well, I was waiting until the buzz had died down so I wouldn’t have to suffer a huge queue, and now I have to wait even longer. :p

By: Geek505

Geek505 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:50:35 +0000

Flash games?

Just piss off hackaday…. you’re dead to me now. :(