RSSWall Racers: Your home is a racetrack
The builder claims these cars will find the racetrack in any room and race it! How? It seems these little racecars use ultra-sonic sensors and a Picaxe to keep them a predetermined distance away form the walls. They keep going around the room, creating their own racetrack. Looks like a lot of fun!
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Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Jun 12, 2008 02:00 AM
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| Posted by: ionymous on June 12, 2008 at 10:19 AM |
Am I the only one who wants to grab the video camera and use it to beat the crap out of the cameraman? WTF!
Zoom out, get a freakin' tripod, or at least steady yourself.
If you are claiming the thing will "find the racetrack in a room", then let it out of its cage and into the room! What you are showing is a 4'x4' empty room!
"home is a racetrack". I was disappointed to see only one car. What kind of race is that? I guess the red car won. yay.
| Posted by: The Oracle on June 12, 2008 at 10:39 AM |
Agreed about the camera work.
It's an interesting car but the motion seems so jerky. Can you modify the code so it's more responsive to what's in its path?
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