From time to time, I like to switch my mind and test new designs.
Few days ago, I wrote about the robot that was able to follow a line by analyzing the video taken from its built-in Camera.
The problem with that system is that the robot needs an actual line lying on the floor… Changing our environment is not always the best idea… so after some time thinking about how to get read of that line, I came with a system that might work without an actual line on the floor.

By mounting a camera in the next floor…

Webcam mounted on the second floor

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Little by little, the new Robotics Lab at Saint Louis University is having more and more robots, usually those robots are the result of “insomnia” nights. This is one of the last toys I’ve made: A line tracker based on a simple computer vision system.

This robot has four different parts:

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