Meet Open Source E-Puck !!!

E-puck is another OPEN-SOURCE educational robot platform from EPFL Polytechnique for beigners.

The e-puck is a small (7 cm) differential wheeled mobile robot. It was originally designed for micro-engineering education byMichael Bonani and Francesco Mondada at the ASL laboratory of Prof. Roland Siegwart at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). The e-puck is open hardware and its onboard software is open source, and is built and sold by several companies.

Technical Specifications

§  Diameter: 70 mm

§  Height: 50 mm

§  Weight: 200 g

§  Max speed: 13 cm/s

§  Autonomy: 2 hours moving

§  dsPIC 30 CPU @ 30 MHz (15 MIPS)

§  8 KB RAM

§  144 KB Flash

§  2 step motors

§  8 infrared proximity and light (TCRT1000)

§  color camera, 640x480

§  8 LEDs in ring + one body LED + one front LED

§  3D accelerometers

§  3 microphones

§  1 loudspeaker

It has good number of extension so that you never had to for anything outside the box.

§  A turret that simulates 1D omni-directional vision, to study optic flow,

§  Ground sensors, for instance to follow a line,

§  Color LED turret, for color-based communication,

§  ZigBee communication,

§  2D Omni-directional vision,

§  Magnetic wheels, for vertical climbing.

 Its flexibility has proven outstanding to many to research group. As it is an open platform many communities have developed their research on E-puck

You can find more details on http://www.e-puck.org/