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 Mr. Whiskers in his 4th iteration. First Developed by students of Mr. Bechtel's Science Class in December 2004. |
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 Tracked Maze Solving Robot. Built by students in classroom competition |
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 Robots from a Photovore Competition, all student built. |
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 Photovore with rear wheel caster. |
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 Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV). Radio controlled, not camera mounted with view of gripper. |
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 Walking Robot 1 Built for ToyFair, 2005. BotBrain board is an early prototype |
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 Walking Robot 2 Uses two servos for walking, one to swing arms and rotate head. |
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 Turreted Minesweeper
Downlooking IR Sensor on turret triggers flailing action when it 'sees' black mines |
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 Turreted Minesweeper
Approaching wall of arena, preparing to turn. Ouward looking IR sensor on turret detects wall, triggers turn. |
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 Turreted Minesweeper after finding 'mine'.
Flailing has tripped the modified mousetrap |
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 Line Follower
Three IR "Line Sensors" are used to follow electrical tape. |
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 Bot in a Maze
Same basic design as Mr. Whiskers |
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 Students at Summer Camp 2006 |
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 Tracked Minesweeper, student built, uses bump, back & turn strategy and sets off mines by driving over them. The same design could easily do a maze. |
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 Two Photovores approache their goal. Tape '+' , directly under light, should be at brighest spot, a liffle left and front.. |
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 Exploring Io
Planetary exploration, Summer Camp 2006
Blue blocks are objects of 'scientific interest' .
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 Exploring Io
Note camera which has gripper in its field of view, and crater in front of bot. |
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 Exploring Io
Preparing to pick up fossil fish, definitely 'evidence of life on Io'
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 Mr. Bechtel, son Avery Left and friend Josh, Right. They are looking up at the monitor to see what their bot sees from the surface of Io. |
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 This was posed for the Sargent Welch and Science Kit catalogs but not used. (L-R) Jessie, Jenna, Bill Bechtel, Colton |
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 Robot in Maze
This is a complete Maze Environment. Two 'dead ends' make this a maze of medium difficulty |
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 4WD robot with platform for mounting sensors. |
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Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV). Radio controlled, not camera mounted with view of gripper. 
