This page accompanies last year's senior seminar: Robotics. The class is aimed at learning the issues involved in simple robot control and manipulation (sounds like we're out to rule the world (maybe we are!)). Currently, we are trying to simulate a bee hive and all the subtleties therein.

I've taken a great interest in getting these little 'bots to talk to one another, and the best way I've found is with radio communication. I've taken a $5 walkie talkie and built a psudo-interface to place between it and the Handy Board. A classmate and I have made great headway in defining the protocol, basing it on an older AX-25 protocol used in HAM radio networks. Trying to kill two birds with one stone, I'm going to try to implement some simple networking commands for the 'bots in Assembler for the 6811 processor for a project in Principles of Computer Organization class. You can see how that project is going.

Here we are working hard on robotics!