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Over the weekend Joe and I made a video showcasing the sentry gun we made for defcon. See the defcon bot on the right side, or read the digg story

We got back from DefCon last weekend. Our Sentry Gun didn’t do very well (tied for last place), but the trip was a lot of fun overall. We knew before we went that we weren’t going to win, so coming in to it with that mindset made it a lot more enjoyable.

The robot was mostly [...]

We made it back from RoboGames. We lost both fights with Big Bloom. The first fight was against Billy Bob, a vertical drum spinner, which took a bunch of big chunks out of our frame, however it seemed to hold up pretty well since it’s half-inch thick, and the chunks were only a sixth of [...]

Another little video after we put it the components on a ‘frame’ and got some decent motors for it. There’s no mixing on the remote (so up-down controls one motor, left-right controls the other), so it’s really hard to drive. This is also filmed on Joe’s awesome camera he got for his graduation present, so [...]

It’s been a long time since my last update, and I figure I should post something. Hopefully updates will be more regular. I’ve had a few things I wanted to post on my blog, but I didn’t want to do it without posting a more comprehensive update, and didn’t really want to post a comprehensive [...]