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."

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Hmmm...

[8tim8]

>One of the teams managed to build a floating, ball-throwing kind of robot...it should appeal to the Slashdot public :-)

From previous stories that have appealed to the /. crowd, I get this image of a floating robot that can hurl a pumpkin a mile.

Re:a good reason

[Atrahasis]

PICs (Microcontrollers) are, as you say, programmed in machine code.

Of course, this means that ANY language, high level or not, can be used, provided that you have the appropriate compiler.

Most compilers are BASIC compilers, but some, such as JAL are more Pascal/C-like.