Took some footage from the deck of my brutusbot to share with everyone. Lots of work to still add, but so far 5K code out of 32K space! Lots of room left!
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From the picture, it looks like that connects to a computer through a standard [old style] serial cable [not USB]
The video says he built if for about 1500 € [in parts?], at todays conversion, that would be just over $2000 Canadian. He said it has the capabilities of a 60000 € commercial printer [$81100] !!
I’ve been following the online AI class from Stanford. Included in that was a video with descriptive commentary of the robot that won the DARPA challenge. The video is also on youtube. The ‘trick’ was to overlay very accurate but short range laser sensor data, with much less accurate but long range camera vision, to ‘infer’ what was further ahead than it could see with the lasers.