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

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Post by alexcroox » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 11:22 AM UTC

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

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

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Post by raffle » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 11:35 AM UTC

Thanks man, that was really fun! I should try it again, i only got 30 points the first time. I only had time to drop one ball after getting used to the controls, and i missed 80 by about 1/8th of an inch.

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Post by rotub » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 11:42 AM UTC

That was fun! I'm surprised how responsive and easy it was to pick up the controls.

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Post by rotub » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 11:42 AM UTC

raffle wrote: post #2

Thanks man, that was really fun! I should try it again, i only got 30 points the first time. I only had time to drop one ball after getting used to the controls, and i missed 80 by about 1/8th of an inch.

I saw that! :)

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

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Post by alexcroox » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 11:48 AM UTC

rotub wrote: post #3

That was fun! I'm surprised how responsive and easy it was to pick up the controls.

Thanks! We worked hard to get the delay under a second. That is of course quite dependant on the speed of your connection as there are 2 streams while you are in control (front cam and ball cam)

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

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Post by fijter » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 12:08 PM UTC

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 :)

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

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Post by alexcroox » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 12:17 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 :)

Yer we are pretty popular in the White House and the Vatican

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

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Post by nickbgn13 » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 12:26 PM UTC

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?

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

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Post by alexcroox » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 12:35 PM UTC

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!

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Post by cupofjoakim » Mon, Nov 25, 2013, 12:52 PM UTC

God damn Si Digital. It's like the second time I've seen your website but I'm in love with the kind of philosophy you guys seem to have around developing lab projects.

If you're ever in stockholm, hit me up!