Autonomous Foosball Table

Step 5 Conclusion

All of the related project files can be downloaded at this site. A backup of the majority of the site content can be found here, at my personal web host. This includes the final report, which has a marketing analysis as well as things we would change, our original goals and a list of what specs were actually attained. The project is NOT meant to be the most competitive player in the world. It is a good tool to show more of the steps used in designing such a beast as well as a decent prototype of this type of robot built for an incredibly low cost. There are other such robots in the world, and certainly, many of them would "beat" this robot. This project was designed by a group of four electrical/computer engineers at Georgia Tech as a senior design project. No help was received by any mechanical engineers and no third-party funding was used. It was a great learning process for us all and a decent use of senior design course time.

I would like to thank
> Dr. James Hamblen, our section advisor, for his continuous help in technical strategies
> Dr. Jennifer Michaels, the lead professor, for not discouraging us from attempting a more ambitious project
> James Steinberg and Edgar Jones, the senior design lab administrators, for constant help in ordering parts, troubleshooting, and the finding the "cool stuff" to throw into the project at low cost and high functionality
> And of course, the other three members of my team, of which, none of this would have been possible: Michael Aeberhard, Evan Tarr, and Nardis Walker.

Comments

[etarr]

I think there's a typo on this page. You said something about thanking the other 'three' members of your team.

[peasant54]

"> And of course, the other three members of my team, of which, none of this would have been possible: Michael Aeberhard, Evan Tarr, and Nardis Walker." No typo. the three members are listed clearly, I don't get what you mean. The three first thanked persons were not in the team.

[eski]

etarr was one of the members on the team (evan tarr). his comment was a joke, as one of the members did a bit less than the others ;)