Re: Late-Nite ramblings on LEGO-Grunt

In message <l03020900b1022deb4dd8@[142.104.17.63]>
	  Tony Christney <acc@uvic.ca> wrote:

> >I got some of the new UFO LEGOs for my birthday(turned 26 hehehe) and
was
> >thinking on how cool these alien guys and there ships would be in
> >Stargrunt.  Then I got to thinking(should of known I was doomed here)
that
> >I have alot of other LEGO stuff that would be kind of nifty to use in
SG.
> >Makes for really cool APCs and other vehicles not to mention the
static
> >stuff you can make and best of all if you blow it up you can scatter
the
> >pieces about and make it look authentic.  Now I just have to come up
with
> >stats for all the little dudes.
> 
> On CBC radio I heard that some engineers at MIT have developed a
robotic
> LEGO brick that you can program with a PC! Supposedly it will be
available
> in a few months! Animated terrain, Cool!

I saw this in New Scientist the other day. A bit surprising
because I was playing with much the same a few years ago
when I did an AI robotics course at Uni, so I don't see what's
quite so new about it. Had IR sensors (basically used as range
finders) as well.

The aim of the course was to build a robot capable of playing
'football'. The really fun bit was that fouling was actively
encouraged, and you got points for breaking apart other robots :)

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