"May the Force be with you..."
Project Description:
Goal:
Based on your performance in the ME218a project, you and your team, along with the rest of the ME218c class, have once again been contracted by ESPN0xFF, this time to develop a team of robotic soccer players. Not the usual fare of rolling 'bots driven by instructions from an unseen intellect, your players will be tele-operated by members of the audience and float above the playing field on a cushion of air.
Purpose:
The underlying purpose of this project is to provide you with an opportunity to gain experience in integrating all that you have learned in the ME218 course sequence, with an emphasis on the new material in ME218c.
The Task:
Design and build a Pneumatically Levitated Athletic Yacht-Emulating Robot (PLAYER) and companion Communication-Oriented Assistive Control Hardware (COACH) (aka controller). Your COACH must be able to operate any of the soccer PLAYERs in the class and conversely your PLAYER must be controllable from any of the COACHs built by other teams.
As you can see from the project description, this quarter Allen's Wrenches (Kristine Tom, Kellen Asercion, Lucas Prokopiak and Allen Chang himself) were tasked with creating a soccer playing hovercraft. Besides the ability to float, and to "kick" a softball-sized-whiffle ball, the project was wide open for interpretation. The collective creative juices of the team came together in full force towards a Star Wars themed project exemplified a hovercraft shaped as a Millennium Falcon and a wireless remote taking the shape of a light saber.
To learn more about each of the different components, please see the additional pages on the website and feel free to reach out to any of us with additional questions. Thanks for looking!
Goal:
Based on your performance in the ME218a project, you and your team, along with the rest of the ME218c class, have once again been contracted by ESPN0xFF, this time to develop a team of robotic soccer players. Not the usual fare of rolling 'bots driven by instructions from an unseen intellect, your players will be tele-operated by members of the audience and float above the playing field on a cushion of air.
Purpose:
The underlying purpose of this project is to provide you with an opportunity to gain experience in integrating all that you have learned in the ME218 course sequence, with an emphasis on the new material in ME218c.
The Task:
Design and build a Pneumatically Levitated Athletic Yacht-Emulating Robot (PLAYER) and companion Communication-Oriented Assistive Control Hardware (COACH) (aka controller). Your COACH must be able to operate any of the soccer PLAYERs in the class and conversely your PLAYER must be controllable from any of the COACHs built by other teams.
As you can see from the project description, this quarter Allen's Wrenches (Kristine Tom, Kellen Asercion, Lucas Prokopiak and Allen Chang himself) were tasked with creating a soccer playing hovercraft. Besides the ability to float, and to "kick" a softball-sized-whiffle ball, the project was wide open for interpretation. The collective creative juices of the team came together in full force towards a Star Wars themed project exemplified a hovercraft shaped as a Millennium Falcon and a wireless remote taking the shape of a light saber.
To learn more about each of the different components, please see the additional pages on the website and feel free to reach out to any of us with additional questions. Thanks for looking!
The Blog:
Follow our progress at our blog!