Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Asuro?

Asuro is a cute little robot building kit. According to the box, it's a:
  • Complete kit including software and a table tennis ball
which saves the fuss of delving up a table tennis ball somewhere to use as front wheel/slide.
Actually, it's a complete robot, with:
  • 2 small motors to separately drive the back wheels
  • 6 touch sensors ("Hey, this is a wall! Let's turn back around and see what's around there! Oh, another wall!!")
  • 2 light sensors mounted at the bottom, very usefull for following a line (guess what our assignment is...)
  • 2 rotation sensors (read: also light sensors, the rotation bit we'll have to program ourselves)
  • And the coolest bit: IR communication features! I am so going to make this talk with my Palm :).
Programmable in C (or whatever language you can find a compiler for), flashable trough the IR port (how cool is that?), and with half a Christmas tree in status LEDs it'll give away a decent disco show as well.

Linky: the website of the people who designed it.

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