Harry Potter Marauders map realized
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
After reading about cheap wireless for microcontrollers, [Leigh] left a comment about his Marauders map. Much like the Harry Potter version, whoever holds the ‘map’ is able to see the location of the ‘marauders’ within certain bounds. Unlike the magical version however, each person being tracked needs to hold a PICAXE 08M, GPS, and 433.92MHz transmitter: while the map needs a computer running his Python script and a receiver of the same frequency. It has the potential for locating people, but we feel it might be better off in a swarm robotics setup.
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Would have been more interesting to read that the laptop drove the mower, and how. Then again my guess the man isn’t going release too many details to potential competition. Tough it wouldn’t be very tough to figure out how to do this manually following a computer display or the display of a GPS unit that has a track entered into it. And to think in th old days they had to actually lay out the maize on the ground, plant trees and wait until the trees are tall enough to be effective. Today it can be done in one seasion, with a new maize maze every year.
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