Day 18: Presentation and clean up

Today, was the last day of this class. All of the teams presented their final presentation, we disassembled our robots, got the inventory list checked off, and turned in all of the signed assignment papers. At the end, Brandon did a special and interesting presentation on his new and improved firebot.
It uses a Odroid U2 for the brains, which is a 1.7 Ghz quad core processor. It has a webcam to detect the flame and the chassis is circular providing an advantage over the squarebots for navigating sharp corners quickly and effectively. Instead of encoders, Brandon used a stepper motor to count the ticks. I thought of this a couple weeks ago but was not sure how it would work, but after hearing Brandon explain it, it sounds like I was onto something. I am very interested in purchasing an Odroid for my self to experiment with my own autonomous robot using similar techniques as well.

So Long Nathan²