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At Kinnernet 2007 we will have 2 robotics sessions and a robot building workshop.

Below you can find the details on each presentation.

The sessions are: 

Friday after-lunch (in the dining room):

- Remote Linux robot
- Graffiti printer
- RoboNer
- Robokusit (Robo-girl)

Saturday after-lunch (during the Great Outdoors):

- The Great Creature we will build at the workshop
- Humanoid robots show
- Guitar Heronoid

The workshop will be held Friday - check the schedule.

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Lego Mindstorm NXT robots

By Eyal Hershko, Sharon Carmel, Roostam Tiger, Ron Yachini, Eyal Shachar, ...

We will have a robot building workshop with 3 (!) new Mindstorm NXT kits and hopefully we will build something really big and scary ...

Guitar Heronoid

Team: GarageGeeks

A robot which plays the PlayStation game "Guitar Hero"
It's not "Deep-Blue", but I dare you to play against it and try to beat the machine.

more images at http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=GuitarHeroNoid&m=text

website: http://www.guitarheronoid.com

Remote Linux Robot

Write a program, download it to the Linux-based robot at the other side of Earth and watch the robot executing (fulfilling?) your program  http://76.208.209.163/

Check this: http://mirror21.video.blip.tv/Ekai-MichaelShilohTakesIntoTheTheLandOfLinuxRobots322.mov

Robo-Ner

By Anton Steshin 

The robot is called "COBRA" is a small fireman that took part in an international competition operated by Jack Mendelssohn a professor from Trinity College. The robot should find a source of fire in a model of 4-roomed house and extinguish it. The source of fire is a candle. The "fire" may be randomly placed in one of the rooms.

ROBO-GIRL

FIRST 2007 Mevoot E'ron H.S. Robot

By: Eyal Hershko

Graffiti Printer

Why work hard and draw graffiti by yourself if you can make robot do it? Not a classical robot, but still counts :)

By Ariel Schlesinger

More details: www.graffitiprinter.com

Humanoids in a show 

Robonova, Boiloid, Manoi and may be some more humanoid robots in a previously unseen cooperation (or the other way round) - hopefully we'll have the time to orchestrate the show ... By: Limor Schweitzer, Roostam Tiger, Shy Vardi, etc

For an example, check what RoboNova is capable of:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robonova&search=Search

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Reflections from 2006: 

RoboSapien   I'm bringing my RoboSapien and a hack to 2006 kinnernet (Ilan)     First 2006 Competition Robots Presentations of a few robots that participated in the First 2006 Israeli competition. These robots shoot balls to a basket hanging 3 meters high and collects ball from the ground (Eyal Hershko). In the picture you can see the RoboDOS robot of Reshit School from Tel-Aviv (build with the assistance of Didi, Vladimir, Ohad, Gil, Zvika, Yuval).

Presentation of AGV Concept Vehicle

AGV (Autonomous Ground Vehicle) Is the next frontier in automotive robotics future.

Concept features:

• Artificial intelligence
• Autonomous guiding systems
• New sensors for obstacle avoidance
• Advanced automotive Design
• Various payload capabilities

AGV D1

Autonomous Ground Vehicle

Prototype named AGV D0

www.deawayinc.com/d0.html

Deaway Inc.

Erez Abramov

PhD. Shahar Dolev

Guy Edelist
and more

Contact:

guy@deawayinc.com

Building a super fast Lego car with 2 engines (Sharon Carmel)

The Concept

I would like to build a fast Lego car with 2 motors, using the Dune Buggy Lego car as a platform. The 5292 motor is 3 times faster than a regular motor; with 2 motors you got the power of 6 regular Lego motors!!! The dune buggy wheels and chassis will be used as the base for the modified car and the Mindstorms NXT controller will control the 2 motors.

Choosing the best engine (a single engine can run teh Buggy at 12 km/h)

Choosing the best platform

There are fast Lego cars that can go 12Km/h one of the models is called The Lego Dune Buggy http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=8284&LangId=2057&ShipTo=US

How to combine the 2 engines

1)       Straight forward -> connect the 2 motors to the same gear and set them off!

2)   Using NXT controller

Might need a multiplexer to unleash the power of these engines because the NXT controller does not have enough power.

http://www.mindsensors.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=58

sharon@beinsync.com

The Matrix and Hard drive laser projectors

I will show my 2 unfinished mechanical projectors , if anyone is interested we could go to the Garage and fire up the lasers..

click for more information and images 

Tom Sofer