Cameras and Robots, Oh My: LOVELAND Special Ops Update
There are two LOVELAND special ops projects in progress: Project Lemon Battery led by Alan Languirand in Detroit, who is creating a solar powered web cam, and Project Pico Mover led by Mike Mayfield in San Francisco, who is creating a web controlled robot that can manipulate a grid.
Alan has a new update on the camera as he pieces together the components for more testing. The goal there is to create a simple off the grid video live video and/or photo stream that can be used to show inchvestor properties.
And I just met up with Mike to get the latest and greatest on the robot. During the meeting he showed me an awesome website called TeleToyLand which has several simple robots you can control over the web with live video streams so when you interact with them you see them move right away. The robot mike is building is very much like this one, a sort of arcade claw machine that can move and draw and drag. Check it out, you can click on the top box to set waypoints and then click GO! to see the robot arm draw things in the sand. Here’s a video from their site, too.
We had a funny experience playing with the rolling ball machine. After clicking a few buttons we saw someone’s hand reach into the frame and reset something. I had my phone out and was able to snatch a picture. This definitely cracked us the heck up. Hello TeleToyLand team! :D
Here are Mike’s hands, just to be fair. He’s hoping to ship the bot to Detroit by (*garbled voice*). He’s hoping to ship it soon enough! :)
The guys at TeleToyLand also made the amazing TeleGarden.
It looks like at least some of the TeleToyLand work is coming out of the University of Michigan. We’ll have to come pay a visit!
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