Competitions – 42 Bots

Win the new Arduino MKR1000 32bit Wi-Fi enabled IoT board

Stan — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 09:27:56 +0000

The “World’s Largest Arduino Maker Challenge” is happening right now through a partnership between Hackster.io, Atmel, Adafruit, Arduino and Microsoft. Here is a video presentation of the context by Massimo Banzi, CEO of Arduino.cc: The contest will run in multiple …

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Project 3 – Ball sorter/collector – Step 1

Wagner — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:37:17 +0000

Experimenting potential configurations for a mechanical arm. Motor + screw as actuator. To do: – Stop motor when the clamp grabs something (without crushing it) – Add servos for 2 axis movement The planned steps for this project actually are: …

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Line Following Competition Videos

Stan — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:28:05 +0000

We held our first line following competition last week. We knew ahead of time that right angle turns may cause some issues, so we set up a few to see what happens. We did have some challenges, like you can …

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Project 2: Arduino Line following test 3

Stan — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:31 +0000

Test #3 of my Arduino Uno controlled line following bot for the upcoming competition. This test was focused on checking how the bot handles 90 degree turns with sharp corners, line intersections and line breaks. The robot uses 6 TCRT5000 …

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Project 2: Line following bot – Tests 1&2

Stan — Sun, 05 May 2013 05:30:38 +0000

This is a very basic line following robot using 4 IR led sensor receiver pairs in a line, continuous rotation servos and Arduino Uno. The wheels are made from beer coasters and I was planning to add a wheel encoder using another …

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Competition 2: Line Following Robot

Stan — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:56:39 +0000

General Objectives: The objective of this contest is for a robot to follow a black line on a white background, without losing the line while navigating several turns on a race course. The robot to complete the course in the …

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Project 2: Line following bot

Wagner — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:43:44 +0000

Release Candidate Very hard to keep it steady as voltage increases. That’s the best speed/stability result I got so far. Now using 3 sensors. The video below has it running at about 6V. Test 1 With differential steering This is …

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T-Tank modified code for course – Test 2

Ted — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:15:36 +0000

Here i tested my bread boarded tank against a simulation of the trial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KjCIk-AGLy4