[Noisebridge-discuss] About the missing robotic arm on wheel chair robot

[Danny O'Brien]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Gopiballava Flaherty
<gopiballava at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2012, at 17:39, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> The robot already has a safety mechanism.  You can't get it to move
>> without a login and some knowledge of how the scripts work.
>
> That's good to know. At the time it want clear to me what was going on.
>
> That being said, the first problem I saw with the robot ramming somebody was caused by the operator simply not paying enough attention to where it was. The guy controlling it was hacking on some control related system and let the robot operate well outside of a distance that allowed him to see what was going on. I'm not really sure how you fix that sort of problem.
>

I would actually like to hack with someone on building a little
autonomous shutdown sensor on MC Hawking. I am getting into robotics
again and it seems like a nice self-contained task even for my
notorious project lability (I am one of the several thousand who has
expressed interest with Jake in doing stuff with Noisebridge's Most
Dangerous Robot and then wandered off onto something else).

I do not mind MC Hawking doing a little random property damage if
pushed, but I would not like him squishing anyone sentient.

d.


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