Re: Is there any interest in a tiny scout-like brick?

I'd be very interested indeed to buy a couple of those, assuming the price
is reasonable!

Bert


www.vandam.tk Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

> I've been working on a tiny robot brick that I've nicknamed the
"picoscout".
> The goal is to fit the key features of the Scout brick (the blue one) in a
> package the size of a light sensor.  The plan is to have one pigtail for
> power, and 2 electrical pads on the top AND bottom for a total of 2 sensor
> inputs (probably touch only) and 2 motor outputs.  I haven't quite figured
> out how to let you choose which builtin program to run, but it will
probably
> be a recessed button on the bottom that you hold down when you apply
power.
>
> Besides tiny robots (limited more by the size of the 9v-battery box)
> possible applications include a slave module for an RCX (put it on a motor
> output, apply power when you want a standard drive/bump/turn robot, turn
it
> off when one of the RCX's three sensors see something and act with 2
> remaining motors) or a touch-switch limted motor that cycles back and
forth
> (panning a sensor, for example).  I'm also hoping to write a neural net
> based learning program which will let you hook up the IO to any robot and
> have it figure out how to avoid hitting things while still moving.
>
> Anyway, I've returned to lugnet.robotics after a long hiatus to find,
well,
> everyone else is on hiatus!  The robotics forum isn't hopping like it once
> was.  So I'm wondering if I should be buying enough parts to be able to
sell
> picoscouts to other enthusiasts, or if I should stick to my current supply
> (enough for the big one on the breadboard, plus 2 finished size, muaha!).
> Would anyone want to buy one of these?  I can't see making it a kit (much
> fiddly soldering) and even greatly undervaluing my assembly time they'd
have
> to cost $40-50.  And eBay tells me you can get a real scout (maybe even an
> RCX) for that much now.
>
> Personally I think LEGO should ditch the microscout and the new blinky
> vehicle crap and make these (which in volume they could do for $5-10 tops)
> and include them in every set with a motor.
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> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics

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Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics