HBRC Challenge Event: 2021 Phase III

Decompression / Overview by Camp Peavy

42 folks online.

12 Presenters.

Over 20 Robots Demonstrated.

Special thanks to the Presenters:

Peter Lowe with “FreshBot” (Stuff in a Cup).

Camp Peavy – “Buggy III” (Phase III, TABLEBot), “Rodney Jr.” (Phase II, Run-What-Ya-Brung!), “LocoMo” (Phase I, FloorBot), and “KerBit” (Phase I, RoboMagellan Trials).

Damaris Davis and the “Humanoid Comedy Show” – Phase II Certified!

Ralph Hipps – “Scanse Sweep” Demo – Work-in-Progress.

Kevin Chow – “Red” Quad Walker – Work-in-Progress.

Sergei – “SmartLab” Tracked Platform – Work-in-Progress!

Scott Horton – “Elsabot” – FloorBot, Phase II Certified!

Thomas Messerschmidt – “Simone” Run-What-Ya Brung! Phase III Certified!

Walter Martinez – “Recycling/Landfill trash detector”, PackBot in the Movies, and Deep Racer (Lobe and Tensorflow).

Jim Dinunzio – “Big Orange” – FloorBot, Phase II Certified!

Steve “Dillo” Okay – “Tenacity”, Work-in-Progress.

Ryan Dobe – “ROS2 Odometry with stepper motors” – Run What You Brung! Level I, Certified!

Chris Mayer – MotBot, TABLEBot, Phase I, Certified!

 We had a good time. I hope you were inspired! Let’s keep building those homebrewed robots!

Camp’s Photos: Photos

Sergei Grichine

Hi All,

if you want some example code for Raspberry Pi Pico under Arduino IDE – here is mine (work in progress, of course):
 
 
Photos of the ReCon tracked toy are here:   https://photos.app.goo.gl/gNXY7pUeRgEkW8Jt6
 
I found I2C, Serial1, attachInterrupt() working fine under IDE. I am sure SPI should work fine too. Keep in mind, it is a 3.3V system for all I/O.
 
At the moment RPi Pico looks like an excellent replacement of Arduinos and Teensy – same ease of programming, much faster, cheaper.
 
Of course, if you need Python or sophisticated C++ SDK, mBed, multicore, channels – that’s there for you at $5
 

Best Regards,
— Sergei