The thing with the LCD screen is the eye-bot(second picture), has a microprocessor that we can program to do different kinds of things. Right now, what we're doing is to create that old game "Etch-a-sketch" on this machine.
Etch-a-sketch is the game that was made for children which allows them to draw/scribble with the use of aluminium powder. You can find out how it works on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EtchASketch10-23-2004.jpg
This is just lab7 out of lab 10, at the end of the final lab, we are going to attach a camera to the eye-bot which will be on a pair of motorised wheels which are also programmable. The goal is to make a "robot" that can identify something in real life and follow that object. Something like a robot playing soccer, where the robot is focused on the ball.
A bit of C-programming involved, other than that its great to see something like this being made from scratch.
Will blog about this again, at the end of Lab 10
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