Shoebotics

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Shoebotics was our project for the Spring 2017 ISU Hackathon. There, we had exactly 36 hours to create something, and we chose to build a robot that would follow shoes. The Devpost is available at the link.

The robot is powered by an arduino 101, and connects to the shoes over a bluetooth connection. The shoes are powered by another arduino 101 and a sensor (in this case a button) to detect gate timing and distance from shoe to bot.

Further development would enable us to use better hardware, and a more cohesive plan so that the robot will have reasonable application. That application, as we have planned it to be, would be to carry luggage around, namely at an airport or in a school environment where medium loads (25-100 kg) are needed to move large distances.

The idea started with two separate projects: a robot and smart shoes. We then combined them into one where we controlled a robot with the shoes.

The robot was originally built, as shown above. We believed this to be unacceptable, so we painted the exterior and reordered the wiring as shown below so that it was more cohesive, as shown below.