The 19th Annual HBRC Challenge season was continjed with the 2021 Phase II Challenge meeting on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, via Zoom. I have hi-lighted as many participants as possible. If We missed you, send you information to editor@hbrobotics.org. Participants are listed in approximate order of appearance during the meeting.
Kevin Chow
Kevin demoed Red Robot built on a Hexbug Spider XL base.
🏆 Run-What-You-Brung Challenge: Phase I Certificate.
Camp Peavy
Charles demonstrated “Reachy on Wheels” which is a group project at Circuit Launch, a hardware focused co-working space in Oakland, CA. Reachy is a fairly functional “greeter” robot which can give tours of the space.
🏆 ArmBot Challenge: Phase I Certificate.
Al Margolis
Ralph demoed “Bane” a humanoid robot that was able to stand-up from a lying position and then perform a hand dance. Club members suggested performing “YMCA” as a logical next step. Ralph also showed “Reflux” a future FloorBot challenger.
🏆 ArmBot Challenge: Phase I Certificate.
Scott Horton
https://www.ros.orgMichael demoed “UBR-1” performing a FloorBot challenge using ROS2.
🏆 FloorBot Challenge: Phase I Certificate.
Camp Peavy
Camp demoed his Floorbot “Neato Turtle” built on a Neato Robotics vacuum cleaner using ROS1.
🏆 FloorBot Challenge: Phase I Certificate.
Steve 'dillo Okay
Marco demoed “Ardumower”, a robotic lawnmower which is his implementation of the Open Source Ardumower project.
Marco has a GNSS base station on the roof:
https://www.bytesalad.org/~mar
pushing the RTCM messages to RTK2go if somebody wants to play with it — there are no uptime guaranties. Sparkfun has a tutorial on this sort of system.
🏆 FloorBot Challenge: Phase II Certificate.
Charles Sun
Ralph demoed “Z-Bot” cruising through the maze challenge. Z-Bot is based on the Pololu Zumo kit.
He also showed the aptly named “Creepy Head” animatronics head that has wowed crowds at Maker’s Faire and other venues.
🏆 A-Mazing LineBot Challenge: Phase III Certificate for Z-Bot.
Damaris "DD" Davis
DD showed off her robot “Cutie-Fry” which proves that robots can be cute and fun instead of just functional or creepy.
🏆 Run-What-You-Brung Challenge: Phase I Certificate.
Alan Federman
Steve showed his Mars Rover style robot “Tenacity” which is a masterpiece of of 3D printing .
🏆 Run-What-You-Brung Challenge: Work in progress.
Thomas Messerschmidt
Bob demoed robot named “TT2021” and “Orange Test Robot” and showed off the wireless robot control panel and debugging tool he is building using Nextion displays.
🏆 TABLEBot Challenge: Phase I Certificate for TT2021.
Michael Wimble
Jim demoed “Big Orange” performing the floorbot challenge.
Jim has made Big Orange’s source code available on github.
Main code: https://github.com/jimdinunzio/big-orange
STM32 customized firmware: https://github.com/
🏆 FloorBot Challenge: Phase I Certificate.
Camp Peavy
Camp showed “Rocky” and “Sammy” performing a dynamic dance routine.
🏆 Run-What-You-Brung Challenge: Special “Editor’s Award” for most laughs generated by a demo.
