Board of Education (BOE) Bot
Today at the office we held the '1st annual mini-golf' tournament.
We split on teams and built a mini-golf course from office supplies
and whatever else we could think of. My hole was made out of a pin
board acting as an inclined plane with walls on three sides made
out of large binders. The objective was to climb the ramp and exit
through the corners, but what made this particularly difficult was
that the hole was 'defended' by a little
BOE-Bot which
I programmed to randomly move back and forth. Due to a defect in
the way the microcontroller cuts power to the servos, one of the
servos get another impulse at the end, which causes it to rotate
slightly. The colleagues had a really hard time aligning their
shot, and trying to predict where the bot will move next. The
office shots weren't that interesting, so I decided to take a
glamor shot of the brave defender of the 3rd hole:
