Water Basketball Robot

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."

Comments

Nice

[nepheles]

Innovation projects sound like a pretty good idea. Too many science courses, including comp-sci, are excessively theory-oriented. Innovation is the lifeblood of science, not the ability to recite a text-book.

Every course should have something along these lines.

OT

[Anonymous Coward]

Just goes to show what people can do when they are not busy killing each other and fighting over who owns what.

a good reason

[dustball23]

They choose basic because that is probably the only language that processor can be programmed in.

You don't program such chips with high-level languages like C & C++. Typically you only use assembly language or other machine-level codes.

The basic-like language (not really a subset, btw) was just provided as a convenience to the programmers.

-D

"Invented" ?!?!

[nurb432]

Not even close.. he helped(?) write a version for the Altair.. but by no means invented it..

Not a bad feat back then, but still, dont over do the credit..