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Water Basketball Robot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the three-pointer dept.

tisaak writes "Second-year Mechanical Engineering students of the ETH Zurich are required to participate in the so-called "Innovation Project". A subject is assigned each year and 12 teams battle it out to develop a complete product. This year's subject was "Sport and rehabilitation" and "Cleaning". One of the teams managed to build a floating, ball-throwing kind of robot. I think the whole idea is funny and the fact that it has a lot of cables and a processor in it should appeal to the Slashdot public :-) The electronics platform used is called C-Control and is used to control the sensors, the motor and the LCD-Display. The implementation of the game program is nice, considering it is written in a subset of BASIC."

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  1. Religion by Leffe · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.floyd.ethz.ch/img/swimtest/spiel4_small .png

    That image looks like some kind of ritual, is it some kind of new robot religion? It seems like there is not much time left until the robots will rule.

  2. What Kind of Robot? by devnullkac · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know why, but I read the headline as White Basketball Robot, and all I thought was, "That's silly... everyone knows White Robots Can't Jump."

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  3. You could build a toilet... by craenor · · Score: 5, Funny

    With a processor and a bunch of cables and /. would love it, as long as it ran Linux.

    If it ran Windows, they would just love to make fun of it.

  4. Houston, we have a problem by mikeophile · · Score: 4, Funny
    That thing looks like a Mercury capsule gone very very wrong.

  5. subset of BASIC by mirko · · Score: 3, Funny

    what is a subset of BASIC ? "BAS" or "SIC" ?

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  6. I'm shocked by Faust7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    the fact that it has a lot of cables and a processor in it should appeal to the Slashdot public

    What do you think we are, nerds or something?

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  7. from the cheap humor dept. by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    One of the teams managed to build a floating, ball-throwing kind of robot

    I imagine they only use floating point calculations

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