Robotocist,Entreprenuer-Solomon King

Founder of Elemental Edge and Node Six,Solomon King discusses his hacking of robots:

courtesy of the Rogue King

Last December, I gave you Rover, my first autonomous vehicle / prototype. My dreams for him where very very many, like, for starters, removing those blasted bumpers (tactile sensors) and replacing them with sonar ranging. Unfortunately, time and money wouldn’t permit. I got held up with other things and then realized that programming sonar range-finding in Assembly is not the same as programming simple input/outputs. Also, I didn’t have any sonar modules to work with.Eventually, I got so busy I never even stepped into the lab for almost 5 months. Until recently...[continue reading]