KARPIK

Inspiration

Dawid (daaave) is a member of electrical engineering group at Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw University of Technology). There were some partially broken power tools, so he decided to make use of them; wrote something on IRC, we heard about this hackathon and the rest is history ;)

What it does

IT MOVES

It can be controlled with anything that can form a HTTP GET request thanks to the server/API written by Piotr (p137) - that includes a web browser, an Android phone and command line.

About the command line... Piotr (p137) wrote a LOGO-alike language interpreter (and by LOGO I mean that old programming language used to teach children how to program), so you can actually write a nice script, attach a marker to the robot and write with it!

How I built it

The robot itself is built of motors taken out of power drills. There's a standard GNU/Linux x86 PC inside and there's a controller connected to it by COM. There's also a WiFi card.

The robot runs GNU/Linux with a Python script to talk to the motor controller through /dev/ttyS0 written by Adrian (adrian17).

There's also a Ruby on Rails server/API written by Piotr (p137) on it. This server/API provides a web interface and a way for making other steering devices.

Piotr (Materac) wrote an Android application in Android Studio and Piotr (p137) wrote the LOGO-esque language/interpreter.

Yoshi figurine is a driver replacement and heading indicator ;)

Piotr (p137) designed the logo for the project.