Links

Sponsor

• Siemens Ireland

Resources

• The Handyboard Website
• Demystifing the Sharp Distance Sensor.  
  The section on Linearising the distance sensor curve may be of interest.
• LEGO bracing tables  
• Sergei Egorov's LEGO Geartrains.  A table of combinations of gear wheels.
• LEGO Motor internals.  Please do not dismantle your own motors!
• Simplified Navigation and Traverse Planning for a Long-Range Planetary Rover
  Autonomous navigation in a Mars Rover.
• Borenstein,J & Koren,Y "Obstacle Avoidance with Ultrasonic Sensors", IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, number 2, April 1988, pp213-218
  This paper discusses a solution to the problem of navigating a robot in a partially known, partially unknown area. While the system in this paper has distance sensors using ultrasound (instead of the infra-red light which we are using), the ideas may be of interest.
• Leo's LEGO Designs
  Leo's ideas book is full little mechanical contraptions devised from LEGO.
• Doug's LEGO Technic
  This uses the Lego RCX computer (instead of the Handyboard), but there are a number of interesting designs.

Other Competitions

• MIT's 6.270 Competition
• Rice University's ELEC 201 Competition. Of particular interest may be their Hints from the past section.
• University of Birmingham. Again, their "Hall of Fame" contains a lot of little tips and hints from former teams.
• University of Southern California

Official sites

• Lego Mindstorms

Music

• 8notes.com
  Free sheet music. You can convert it into a series of beeps of a certain length and frequency. This can be coded onto the Handy Board, and used to play a piece of music.
• Wikipedia entry on musical notes