The Alice May's Fire Extinguisher

The very first competition robot I build was for the Trinity College Fire Fighting Competition. I really knew nothing about building robots. I was a programmer, and had dabbled in computer logic, mostly 74hc logic chips.

I was very bad at analog things, as well as, microprocessors. I had taken a computer organization class in college, but I never really did hands on work with them. The board was based on a Motorola HC11. It was an amazing microcontroller for getting started. The M.I.T. board had four motor controller and several latches for expanding the I/O. The board was the basis for the Handy Board.