So take an X-Y positioning mechanism (RepRap) and mount it on a air hockey table, and you get an air hockey playing robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjzSeOg8oTs&feature=youtube_gdata_player Well...there's a bit more to it than that. It also involves vision processing (OpenCV) to detect the puck and predict its future location. The video shows off some of the behind the scenes processing the controller is doing. It's actually pretty impressive how fast it works. When you get bored with playing hockey, you can put some paper onto the table, pop a pen into the mallet (the think you hit the puck with), and you've got a plotter. Albeit one that can't lift the pen, so the output looks like something done on an Etch-a-sketch. -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
