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I bought two FEZ cerbot from GHI
https://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/403

These are .NET micro-controllers with wheels and a couple sensors with 6 gadgeteer ports for expansion.

First thing I'm going to try is to get one to stay inside a box or circle of a different color.  

The robots have a pair of reflectivity sensors on the front.  Should be pretty easy to have the bot turn around and avoid the edges.

[[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lansing-makers-network/H2Ycka4clho|Google Groups Topic]]

I have mounted IR compound eye's to each robot using the exact same build procedure so the robots will have identical hardware... for now.

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I envision having a balloon kill switch, and a IR start command to start the fight.


I like how i3 has an overhead camera tracking the locations to be beamed to the robots for further usage, not sure if I'll get that extreme or not though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exUIDctnmfQ

Useful information on using the [[http://3amcode.blogspot.com/2012/05/net-gadgeteer-object-tracking-using-ir.html|IR Compound Eye with Gadgeteer]]

Todo:
  - Determine how multiple robots will be able to use IR sensors at the same time
     * One possible method would be to have them take turns and signal when it's safe for the other to turn on it's IR.  I would think some experimentation would be needed to have this work
  - Define rules
  - Build battle arena