effing awesome machine!

Nice- now add some AI so the robots can hunt each other.

@Amos: You are thinking of “Motorola Droid” (HAL9000 thingie), not “Android” (cute green guy).

There’s no dialog in the video, so just hit the mute button.

this is similar to a project i suggested you could do with those spy TRAKR cars

maybe they should just use those rather than sitting a laptop on a cart

wonder why they didn’t just show it playing the game and not just goofing around

Hello guys and thank you for your comments (I’m Shay), I actually did posted a video about the robot
battle itself, just check out the Youtube channel.
It has 2 more videos showing the robot in a battle and being motion controlled using the Nokia N95 accelerometer.

What would be awesome is adding some augmented reality so that the ‘robots’ can blow up on the computer screen, have a name tag above them etc.

Not a new idea, we were doing this in 1993. Granted we did it with chips and processors not cheating by using a freaking laptop.

I built 2 using 6809 processors, some logic and a pair of H bridges.

The school had black wall to floor borders so simple CDS cells worked well as wall detectors. indstead of “lasers” we shot encoded IR beams collimated with a simple IR led+brass tube and a lens.

Less than 900 lines of code in assembly to avoid walls, search for the other robot (both bots had led beacons) and attempt to get close enough to kill. After a kill the other bot became the hunter and the other became the prey until a time limit was triggered then both go into hunter mode.

and I stole my design out of a old BYTE magazine as a base and modified from there. Gotta love the days when you blew a eeprom to program your computer/bot

Red Eye=Hal 9000

@osgeld
yes