Guitar Hero Robot from FIRST Robotics Team 1986 (high school)

[jspatz1]

We are FIRST Robotics Team #1986, Team Titanium, from Lee's Summit West High School in Lee's Summit, MO.  This Guitar Hero Robot was a summer project.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLQhX0nZV6I[/youtube]

[kpmcgurk]

Yes another person in first robotics on this forum!!!

I watched this yesterday after you posted it on chief Delphi, and it is amazing!!

-kpmcgurk
(mcgurky on chief Delphi)

[SmAsH]

wow, any more info on this project? a webpage? a blog?
that robot is really impressing! do you use something like a phidgets board to control the motors?
i really want info on this project!

[kpmcgurk]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=78180

This is a post made by the same person on the FIRST robotics forum about the robot.

[Joker94]

that bot is awsome, its capability to play guitar hero is amazing.

[SmAsH]

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=78180

This is a post made by the same person on the FIRST robotics forum about the robot.

thanks, that explained much more about it.

[jspatz1]

wow, any more info on this project? a webpage? a blog?
that robot is really impressing! do you use something like a phidgets board to control the motors?
i really want info on this project!

The robot uses simple tubular solenoids.  They are driven by a nifty I/O board we found that has USB addressing and high current solid state relays built into one board.  The vision is done with LabView software from National Instruments.

[kpmcgurk]

How much was that board? Our team wants to make a really fast rubik's cube solving robot, but we only have one C-rio. And we have a very limited budget