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    Science Fair part 2

    Posted by Glaiel-Gamer - February 19th, 2008


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cbbKRB k34s

    This is #87569 of 1 million uses for flash CS3.

    The youtube description:

    Made for my schools mandatory Science Fair. The robot is programmed in Actionscript 3.0, using phidgets (www.phidgets.com) and their AS3 API. The maze is made of cardboard, plywood, foam, paint, and can be rearranged at will. The robot has some issues moving and rotating the right distance, but can make it through the maze with human help.

    The science fair is on February 29th, root for us!

    The total cost of the robot was around $300, not including the cost of the maze, flash, or my laptop. It was a fairly fun and frustrating project, and all that's left is the worst part- writing the paper and making the poster.

    The robot can make its way through any maze you set up, and keeps track of the data it senses to build the maze in memory so it can avoid backtracking. When there is no exit, it will visit every spot on the maze once, then stop. It will cover the entire surface of the maze in the smallest possible time. Therefore, when finding the exit, it will find it in no longer than the shortest possible time it takes to cover the entire maze. Plus, it records the path it takes and what the maze looks like.

    If we had more money, we could have made a solution to the running into walls. But my school would only repay us up to $400, and I didn't feel like spending too much of my own money on a school project.

    Also, I love actionscript, so the fact that there was an API for it made me REALLY happy.


    Comments

    That's great to hear!

    Awesome man. Looks pretty damn cool.

    Get back to flash.. Screw everything else.

    This was made in flash

    OHSNAP

    U meant...Like... Games and whatnot. :(

    I meant***

    great vid. im sure your science project will work. you just need a bit of modifications to the controling and it wont make any turning mistakes. still im sure your science project will win the science fair on Feb 29th. good luck on the science fair. even though you wont be making flash GAMES you are gonna make flash MOVIES. right? anyway great vid. im sure ill see more vids from you since im a member of YouTube. i subscribed to ya. since this is flash though in YouTube as a vid ill give you 5 stars. TheStickKid is my name in YouTube. New999 wasnt available and nobodys called New999 except me. maybe they dont allow New999.

    No, the modifications I'd need to make it turn right cost too much. The judges don't care that much, the code works and we know how we would fix it if we had the funding.

    That is REALLY impressive!

    What was Flash used for, exactly? Is that how the maze itself is recorded?

    Flash sends and receives data from the robot through a special XML communication file. The API set up a sort of local server on my laptop, so flash communicated with it much like it would communicate with a server for an online game, just instead of sending data to flash, it controlled the robot.

    All the thinking, timing, sensing, and pathfinding was coded in flash. Basically, flash controlled all aspects of the robot.

    Is that a glove puppet?

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    awesome! good luck! we had a science fair last year. I won 2nd place for my project: "Do Video Games Really Affect Your Hand-Eye Coordination?"

    This year we have to make an invention, Im making a videogame caddy/organizer/snack tray.

    AWSOME!!! 0.0