Events and Contests

The purpose of our contests is to hone your skills while giving you an excuse to build something.

We are not big into winners and losers - we feel everyone is a winner when they come to show off one of their creations.

 

 

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For our March. 21, 2010 meeting we will have a Ping Pong Potpourri

 

The goal of this challenge is to construct a Robotic device to do something (anything) with 6 standard white Ping Pong balls. You can count them, find them, throw them, push them, or anything you want. Your device can move or do its thing staying in one place. We can give you either a black or a white surface, if that matters. We can turn the room lights on or off, whichever is better. You can use as many or as few of the balls as you want.

The goal is fun, so crank up your creativity and create something that does something with these balls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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For a future date:

 

The goal of this challenge is to program your Robot to draw some letter or other simple object.

The item drawn could be letters like A, B, C or shapes like circle, square, triangle or even more complicated items like stick figure of person.

Special consideration will be given to the quality and difficulty of the drawing.

You can use any type of marker or drawing instrument and attach it any way to any place on your Robot. The marker could even lift off the paper if you are clever enough.

Each Robot will have it's own 32" x 27" flip chart type sheet of paper. The drawings can be any size, but they must fit on the pape

 

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Click here to view a really cool mpeg of our very first mini-sumo contest (Beware - this is a 3Mb file and could take a while to download at dial-up speeds).

 

Click here to see the "Find the Light Contest" info.

 

 

There will be a course printed on a 3ft x 8ft piece of white paper with a 1in

thick black line as shown below.

 

 

There will also be a set of black 1' tiles with white lines available that we can lay out in any pattern.