Participants in this week’s FIRST World Championships in St. Louis can stop by the National Instruments booth in the FRC pits for some fun and games. Our very own Project S.T.E.E.L. (Superior TETRIX Engineering Enabled by LabVIEW) will be making its debut!

Here’s how it works:

• The object of the game is to drive the Ranger Bot around a track as quickly and accurately as possible.

• The Ranger Bot is controlled using an iPhone’s built in accelerometers. The robot will go faster the more the iPhone is tilted forward, and can be turned to the left or to the right by tilting the iPhone to the left and right, like a steering wheel.

• The player scores more points by going faster, and by staying on the track. There is a score multiplier for every three seconds that the Ranger Bot is on the line.

All of this with some very cool sound effects!  Many thanks to the Enable team members who toiled to make it awesome.

Here’s a preview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHLuZYiW1vI