Hephaestus system is a set of 3 roaming robots and a booth, these robots will be specially designed with different appearance and function to provide addition showcase platform and information of all the FYP students (except for me), visitors will not get any information of me from these robots. Only the booth will have information of me because, really, I have to find some place to put my name card. And it is kind of cool for the visitor to realize by themselves that the robots is a work of a student. Another reason for the robots not to show my work is to prevent conflict with my peers, since my robot will be walking in other major’s “territory”, it is simply not nice to broadcast my own project.
Imagine one day when you are lying on your bed and receive a SMS telling you that your FYP project is awesome? how great is that?
Imagine what can the system do for product design student if there is holographic display on one of the robot? You will see the student’s information on the main screen and the student’s work in hologram?
Slightly more detailed drawing of the one that I like the most out of the 36. this will be the rough gauge of the size of the robot
The final robot will probably not be this, but this is a good gauge to show the overall style of the robot which I will be making, not those typical looking or DIY homemade robots.
show the remote control proof of concept i made.
Computing done in the booth system as it will be connected to power supply and heat will be dissipated more efficiently than in the robots. Current location of the robot and movement control will be sent from the booth, user input and message will be sent from the robots to the booth.
Intended recipient and message from user will be transferred from the robot system to the booth through wireless (Bluetooth or Wifi), Booth receive the message, encode it with the recipient’s phone number into the GSM module and send the message through a prepaid simcard.
Skills Acquiring and Prototype R1 goes hand in hand, I will learn while doing and do while learning.
As of now, there are many skills which is essential for me to achieve this project but I don’t know, so I will be learning them. Blender is a 3D modeling software, it is really powerful and the best part is that it is free, the downside is the learning curve is really steep.
