Show HN: Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot

Post by thearn4 » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 1:24 PM UTC

alexcroox wrote: post #9

nickbgn13 wrote: post #8

Wow that's cool, what robot are you guys using? Did you build the robots yourselves? If so, where did you get parts etc.? And how does the system know when a ball is dropped through a specific hole, which then displays an animation with amount of points?

It's a Lynxmotion AL5A you have to assemble it yourself. We have 8 lever switches under the staging area we built connected to the GPIO pins on the Pi. When the Pi recognises a switch push it tells the nodejs server which passes it on to everyone. We will post full lab notes explaining everything in detail like we did for our Halloween experiment soon!

Post by pattle » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 2:09 PM UTC

Post by alexcroox » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 2:15 PM UTC

sebkomianos wrote: post #14

We want Sid back, bring him back to us! :D

Post by zupitor » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 2:20 PM UTC

Post by camelCased » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 3:29 PM UTC

fijter wrote: post #6

Very nice, cool build! Pretty cool that Bryan Cranston (Walter White from Breaking Bad) is in the top 10 as well (shared first place). Edit - Oh, you can just enter any twitter username without validation, my bad :)