11 Oct 2011 11:13
Cavern exploration robot
Claude Baumann <cbaumann <at> ci.educ.lu>
2011-10-11 09:13:31 GMT
2011-10-11 09:13:31 GMT
Hi all, those who would like to follow our new project, please go to www.convict.lu/Jeunes/RoboticsIntro.htm and follow the "Casemates project blog". The idea is to design and program a robot that can navigate through the casemates, which are sorts of caverns beneath the city of Luxembourg, left behind by old military occupants (French -Vauban 17th century-, for instance). As our boarding institution is built upon an old vestige of a fortress, we still have an access to some casemates that have never been explored. In this project, we will combine metallic Tetrix and LEGO Mindstorms parts, as a very robust construction is needed to overcome the difficult topography. (Note that Tetrix robots may be Mindstorms-controlled and is compatible with the geometry of the LEGO parts.) http://www.tetrixrobotics.com/ http://news.legoeducation.us/Newsroom/Item.aspx?art=2752 (Also note that the blog is entitled "Boulette Institute of Technology", a funny student usurpation of the great East-coast institute's name. To explain "Boulette", this is much more complicated... you need to understand French, and know parts of the boarding institution's history.)
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