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Fire-Fighting vs Fire-Starting Robots

ercoerco Posts: 20,256
edited 2009-03-18 17:12 in Robotics
Most people have heard of the Trinity College Firefighting Robot contest. I was there. In fact, I·won the 1994 contest with a Basic Stamp 1 robot. But now my shadowy past has caught up with me. In 1988, the robots we made didn't fight fires. They started them. Here now, for the first time in public, is the grainy original VHS video with Commodore 64 graphics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmyhjwfJZII&feature=channel

Had Chip Gracey not invented the Basic Stamp and set my feet upon the·proper path, I might not be here today. God Bless you, Chip!

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  • MikerocontrollerMikerocontroller Posts: 310
    edited 2009-03-02 08:59
    · Nice.·devil.gif
  • EzsynnEzsynn Posts: 119
    edited 2009-03-02 09:49
    Woah, I wasn't alive at that time! Nice vid though.

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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2009-03-02 15:57
    Awesome event! Additional kudo's for Commodore use and great music.

    The 80's were a good time to be a geek! If we staged this here the fire department
    would be there watching arrests being made. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2009-03-02 17:07
    Wow... The destruction of robots by fire! Makes me wish I had some lighter fluid around. I particularly liked the sprinkler robot. It didn't work, but it made some very impressive rings of fire.
  • icepuckicepuck Posts: 466
    edited 2009-03-03 04:01
    Soo...that's were battlebots got their ideas from. It looks like something from FAHRENHEIT 451.
    Your not the one starting those wild fires are you? LOL!
    -dan
  • bdbbdb Posts: 30
    edited 2009-03-04 03:29
    Well, my first reaction to reading the subject line was that a fire-fighting robot would have to be able to take more heat because it would have to sit near the fire while fighting it.· A Fire-Starting Robot could start a fire and run away - so it wouldn't need as much heat shielding.

    Boy did you show me wrong ! tongue.gif
  • Mike2545Mike2545 Posts: 433
    edited 2009-03-06 18:43
    Nice Ercojumpin.gif

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  • Cole LoganCole Logan Posts: 196
    edited 2009-03-06 23:41
    I think it would be cool to have a competion were you have one robot that has to go through and start some fires then another robot has to go through at the same time and put the fires out.

    For the fire starting team you would get points for how much of the targets that you could destroy. You would get a bonus if you can stop the fire stopping robot.

    For the fire stopping team you would get points for how much of the targets are left. You would get a bonus if you can stop the fire starting robot.
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2009-03-07 02:30
    Cool video! Who is that young kinda hippy looking guy and how did·he become the model citizen you are today?

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  • N-2-STUFFN-2-STUFF Posts: 25
    edited 2009-03-17 05:33
    battle bots of days gone by...··· the 80's was a fun time from the fragments i remembertongue.gif
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2009-03-18 17:12
    OOPS! We did it again. That was a heck of a way to celebrate my 25 year anniversary·as a toy designer!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANKleh5ZdEM

    Same carnage and several of the same players as in the 1988 video.

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