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| Robot: |
Firefighting Mouse Robot |
| Features: |
IR Flame Sensors
Self-leveling IR sensors
Modified Mouse Chassis with heavy-duty gear-head motors
Robodyssey wheels and hubs
Early Robodyssey Tail Wheel
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| Developers: |
Daniel Reich, Chris Murphy, students at local high school |
Student developed 'TuteBot' (copyright 1999 A.K. Peters - 'Mobile Robots-
Inspiration to Implementation) circuit on PC board
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Chris is bread boarding the flame sensor and I am working on mounting sensors. |
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Here is a view of the 'Tutebot circuit we built on a printed circuit
board, (PCB), mounted on the Robodyssey Mouse chassis. In the background
you can see the Basic Stamp 2sx mounted on an early Robodyssey Motherboard,
our power distribution strip, and flame sensor circuit, mounted on the
second level of the robot. |
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Here we are holding our finished firefighter after our second place
finish at the Robot Madness day Firefighting Home Robot competition, May of 2003. |
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