Good work. I think Rovio is a good fire fighter. ;o)
Really cool!
Klaatu - Barada - Nikto
Categories: Robot Hacks and Mods
Sorry for my English, I'm a Chinese.
First I should mention I'm a crazy model fan, and I only make hi detail models.
I'm also a crazy fan of artificial intelligence and microelectronics. Rovio is a wonderful platform to do some experiments, so I changed its shell as well as its inner circuit.

I made a electromagnetic valve and added it to rovio, the bottle on the right is filled with CF2ClBr(4ATM). Then I use adaboost+SVM to train rovio:

And then...rovio became an auto fire extinguisher! Rovio is just wonderful!
I also wrote a rovio controller program with object tracking and motion detection.
The code was written in C#.net 3.5 and soon I'll upload it here.
A lot of people ask me how the "remote fire extinguisher facility" works. I'm sorry I didn't make it clear on the above article. The fire extinguisher facility is connected to a optocoupler switch( I replaced the front light with an optocoupler switch). Since the current of the front light is only 8.9mA,I made a circuit which uses rovio's own battery to amplify the current. By doing so ,rovio can make the decision of turning on or turning off the switch itself.

Now I'm trying to replace the W99802 and Marvell chip with Microsoft Ebox , it's a crazy idea but if this has been done successfully ,I can find partners to produce indoor fire extinguisher robots for commercial use since all the software and hardware are tested. One of my professors even said that he would invest 2×10^5 RMB to help me make a larger rovio-like vehicle with a gun and sell this anti-terrorist robot (Auto?) to the police. I often laugh at those engineers who bought Su-27 and do some recreations, but now I'm doing the same thing!
Good work. I think Rovio is a good fire fighter. ;o)
Really cool!
Klaatu - Barada - Nikto
Nice job but please edit your photos to fit into the thread screen and create a gallery for the larger photos. By having large photos the advertisements on the right can not be seen and these pay for our community so we don't have to pay dues to enjoy our passion and share with each other our creations..
Keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to seeing your source code for it..
Jax
GWJax, To Hack and make mods on robots is a life style and comes natural and not by choice. If a robot has a screw to open it then it must be opened!
GWJax said: Nice job but please edit your photos to fit into the thread screen and create a gallery for the larger photos. By having large photos the advertisements on the right can not be seen and these pay for our community so we don't have to pay dues to enjoy our passion and share with each other our creations.. Keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to seeing your source code for it.. Jax
Sorry, I didn't notice... I'll do it right away.
Sorry,I want to upload the video but it is impossible to visit youtube in China, let alone uploading videos.
Really nice paint job and construction! Can you post links to "Adaboost+SVM"? I'll adjust your photos to be a bit smaller (moderator job!).
Excellent idea!
-- roschler
Robodance 5 - Rovio over Skype with Voice Control
milw said: Really nice paint job and construction! Can you post links to "Adaboost+SVM"? I'll adjust your photos to be a bit smaller (moderator job!).
The 2009 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium is hosted by my university and I'm busy preparing for it, as soon as it's over I'll upload the code to codeplex.
Did you know that in Finnish language the word 'rovio' is a bonfire?
meredith said: 做的真不错呀. 请问第一张照片是什么? 我能不能转载你这篇文章呀?
For those of us who don't read Chinese, I used Babelfish to translate (Chinese-trad to English):
Meredith said: Does really well. Ask that what the first picture is? Can I reprint your this article?
milw said:meredith said: 做的真不错呀. 请问第一张照片是什么? 我能不能转载你这篇文章呀?ÂFor those of us who don't read Chinese, I used Babelfish to translate (Chinese-trad to English):
Meredith said: Does really well. Ask that what the first picture is? Can I reprint your this article?
How did you do the body work?
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I am thinking this could also be used to build an Hover or helicopter with the same technology. Have the hover fly for an hour recharge and go again, completelly autonomous around forests or fire risk areas. This hover could alert and and if the fire is small enough fight it. Hell this is a money idea right there.
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cmilian said: How did you do the body work?
I used a CNC machine to build the valve and the bottle. The new shell is made by hand , the material is ABS board.
Sorry to be a pest, have you got some more photos of your custom shell? especially from during the construction? The forum has a photo gallery function (their should be a "create gallery" button under the thread title), you could stick any photos you've got in there and make us all very happy.
cmilian said: I am thinking this could also be used to build an Hover or helicopter with the same technology. Have the hover fly for an hour recharge and go again, completelly autonomous around forests or fire risk areas. This hover could alert and and if the fire is small enough fight it. Hell this is a money idea right there.
I'm also thinking of that. My fire extinguisher facility is only 628g, and can be installed on my T-REX 600 Nitro.
Nocturnal said: Sorry to be a pest, have you got some more photos of your custom shell? especially from during the construction? The forum has a photo gallery function (their should be a "create gallery" button under the thread title), you could stick any photos you've got in there and make us all very happy.
I'm sorry I didn't shoot more photos...and actually I'm using a proxy to visit this site which doesn't support flash(needed to creat gallery).
:) I learned my lesson when it comes to photos ages ago, I take photos of every step, everything I do (better to have them, than to need them and not have them). Even if I never publish the things.
Yet another argument not to use flash for anything important. I certainly appreciate the effort your going to simply to post here.
If you can get the photos into posts in the thread, I can use the moderator magic powers to create a gallery! (ps I tried the translation again with Chinese-simplified but it came out exactly the same- thanks for the tip though!)
milw said: If you can get the photos into posts in the thread, I can use the moderator magic powers to create a gallery! (ps I tried the translation again with Chinese-simplified but it came out exactly the same- thanks for the tip though!)
HaHa...Thank you! That the translation is exactly the same is because those words are exactly the same in simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese! What a coincidence!
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