I just got back from the BattleBots event this past weekend. It was pretty fun, and I got to see a few good fights, but it was somewhat stressful to have to run the brackets for the 15lb robots. On the plus side, they allowed recording of the 15lb weight class, so I got a [...]
I was checking my RSS feeds today and came across this article about swarm robots, with this video attached:
It kind of reminds me of an episode of Numb3rs where Charlie uses swarm bots to map out a train to allow rescue of the passengers. I know that it’s well-meaning research and all, but I [...]
I know, I’m terrible at keeping up to date on these blog posts. What usually happens is there’s something I want to post but don’t want to take the time to do it right now and it gets permanently stuck in my queue of stuff to do. Then I want to post about something else [...]
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 [...]