The Great Wall O’ Gizmos is a continually-growing exhibit of interactive junk art technology by Brooks Coleman. It made its debut at RoboFest 4 (1993).
The boxes in the wall are modular and can be stacked and connected in different ways. A multitude of clocks, sequencers, lab timers, and dishwashing machine timers turn dissected appliances and gizmos on and off like crazed monkeys.
This is another creative use of recycled material from our resident junk yard art genius.
Tag: RoboFest 4
Rover
Rover, another Wan Yik Lee creation, was a homebrewed robotic base powered by two motorized wheels which were controlled based on differential velocity. A SONAR system was mounted on top of the base.
The base had a dedicated microcontroller to allow it to accept various motion commands through a serial port. Encoders wee mounted on the motors to provide motion feedback.
The SONAR system consisted two parts :
a) a ring of sixteen uniformly-mounted Polaroid SONAR transducers, and 2) a microcontroller with two Polaroid SONAR drivers to accept various sensing commands and to control the operation of the sensing system.
The SONAR ring was adjustable to a height between 30 inches to 38 inches and could be programmed to sense according to various schemes.
Rover had been dressed up as a space-age android, and exhibited as a human transporter in RoboFest 4 (1993) and RoboFest 5 (1994). It served hundreds of human drivers using a Nintendo joystick controller as the interface for motion command.
