Oh, cool. violent machines

[rmd]

Autonomous Fighting Robot competition. This is all way beyond my general skill level, but it might be a fun intense thing to dive into it with a team. *idle pondering*

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[cz_unit]

Makes me wonder what Survival Research Labs is up to these days. I miss robots battling with piano catapults.

[be-well-lowell.livejournal.com]

What skills are you missing for this? You'd be one of the first people to pop to mind if I knew anyone else trying to put together a team.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

I have a broad skill-set, but I feel like I've only got beginner-level skills in a lot of this, particularly the microcontroller side of things.

[be-well-lowell.livejournal.com]

Whereas that's the part that seems easiest to me, although not getting to real robotics.

There are a lot of hobbyists in the microcontroller area now. I know several people with no electronics or programming experience to speak of who've built useful projects with Anduino kits. And of course, Lego Mindstorms have been around for nearly two decades now, and sponsor their own (kids') robot leagues.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

It looks massively cool, but it would take more than the two weeks they give you to make a truly effective fighting robot, I'd think.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Depends what it's fighting.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... Could one build a programmable fighting-robot-building machine? Then you could evolve better fighting robots based on mutation and selection (combat success).