What are they made of?
GlowBots is built upon an educational open robot platform called e-Puck developed by EPFL. We have then extended this with a add-on module that we call a see-Puck. Those two together with a bit of software becomes GlowBots. This enables us to explore how people would interact with a swarm of small communicating robots where human participation is an integrated part of the whole setting. GlowBots uses infrared lights to get a natural narrow situated robot to robot communication that humans can learn from and participate in by physically interact with the agents.
GlowBot Autopsy
Software Repository
Hardware schematics with software and documentation for the see-Puck is freely available under GPLv2 (And is intended to be compatible with the e-puck Robot Open Source Hardware License where applicable) and can be downloaded here. Any source code we have extended and improved for the e-Puck is also available here under the premisses of the e-puck Robot Open Source Hardware License.
see-Puck Hardware and Software Bundle
An economy library with lots of improvements for a more sustainable e-Puck
An improved epuckuploadbt with cache
