PiWars done for another year...

We went to Cambridge, took the Dreally Orsome Growbot, competed in lots of challenges, had a good day, came back with a few Pi Zero's and met with Eben Upton! 


So we didn't win any categories outright, but considering the fantastic robots we were up against that had been built by people with a lot more expertise, time and money, we did OK and the robot survived!


Some pictures from the day:

Ready for action

Before it got busy...

Tackling the obstacle course

skittles..

proximity challenge...

straight line speed test..

Pi Noon (or..pop the opponent's balloon with a pin on a stick!)

For more pictures and the (eventually they will appear) results - piwars website

or if you're on Twitter search #PiWars or @LC_Comp_ICT

And it makes noises....

'sort of' dog noises...

Before and after....

Thought you might like to see a 'before and after' shot... just to show how you can completely destroy a toy!

Robot has a new kennel

It's found a place to hide!

Making the robot 'slightly' more aesthetically pleasing!

Although I think the robot making crew have been taking lessons from Sid Phillips of 'Toy Story' fame....

lots of wires...

fixing on the additional, crucial element...

and done...

but then ---- disaster ---- literally 3 minutes later.....decapitated!

Still in development

Although we've submitted part of our code, we are still developing the mechanisms to control the robot - at some point we also need to sort out how we are going to control it for the various tasks it will need to do at Cambridge...


For the time being, students seem to be having fun testing it - trying to work out its limits!


YouTube - clip 1


YouTube - clip 2

It moves!

Hacking update

Amazing what you can do with a screwdriver...

Board / Chassis design

Starting to design the chassis...

Laser cutting....

Part 1 finished...

Pi Wars - progress so far....

Well, we have put a call out to friends an family for old robotic toys.  Luckily we seem to have a number of people with broken or no-longer-needed bits and bobs that we can take apart and reassemble into something that resembles a working (hopefully) robot.

We started with a dog...

Then a car...

Then attempting to join them together

PiWars 2015

PiWars is an annual competition that takes place at Cambridge university. This year the competition will take place at the Cambridge Computer laboratory on the 5th of December.

It is a challenge-based robotics competition in which Raspberry-Pi-controlled robots are created by teams and then compete in various challenges to earn points. There are prizes awarded at the end of the day.

Last year Lutterworth College entered a robot and we won the aesthetics category and came second in the straight line speed test.

This year we are entering again - but we are hoping to make a new robot.

If you are interested in getting involved, come and join us at Code Club in H19 on Tuesday's afterschool.

Coding Club at Lutterworth College

Coding Club is up and running again on Tuesday's afterschool - H19 - look out for the posters in the 'H' corridor