Inspiration
This project was inspired by the Ping-Pong robot exhibited at CES 2018.
What it does
The robot is supposed to be able to play ping-pong.
How we built it
We built a frame out of T-slot aluminum beams. We constructed a primitive cartesian motion system upon this frame. The motion is controlled by stepper motors driven by an Arduino Mega, which is connected to a laptop. The laptop runs a Python script that uses OpenCV to detect a ball in the image and attempts to move the robot based on the ball's motion.
Challenges we ran into
The robot mechanically wasn't capable of performing the necessary motions.
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