The Infotronic (INTRO) Spring 2015 course finished at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts with a Sumo Robot competition with great and funny robots:
Set of Sumo Robots
Sumo Robot Competition FS2015
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Sumo Robo Portraits – FS2015
Video
Students worked hard implementing their robots for the coming Sumo battles. Amazing looking Sumo Robots are the result :-). Have a look yourself:
Fat Bastard
Happy Sumoing 🙂
Snow Plowing (Darth Vader) Sumo Bot
Finally, winter with lots of snow arrived in Switzerland. Getting up at 5am this morning to free up my front yard from the 25 cm snow which came down overnight, so I can drive my wife to work. She does not like driving in snow conditions, but it is fun for me :-). But lots of snow, I thought I could use a little helper bot:
Snow Plowing Sumo Bot
Darth Vader Santa Claus Sumo Bot
As I have received multiple questions about that Darth Vader Santa Claus/Christmas robot in the Mini-Sumo competition last week, here are the details in case you want to build your own :-)…
Darth Vader Sumo Bot
Sumo with GoPro, and other Sumo Videos
Here are the videos and results of the Mini-Sumo competition held on 19-Dec-2014 in Horw, Switzerland:
- Winner full-autonomous tournament: “The:Flash”
- Winner semi-autonomous tournament: “Banana-Rob”
See “Infotronic WS2014 Sumo Robots are Ready!” for all the robot portraits.
Watching a Sumo Battle
Infotronic WS2014 Sumo Robots are Ready!
The Sumo robots are ready to battle today!
Sumo Robot Sensor Shield
The PCB’s for the Sumo robot (see “New Sumo Robot Assembled, and looking good!“) arrived. It is the ‘production’ version of that shield I have shown in “Sensor and Communication Shield for Sumo Robot” which adds following to the robot:
- Ultrasonic module
- Bluetooth module
- nRF24L01+ module
- I2C I/O Expander for 8 extra I/Os
- One general purpose I/O header
- One general purpose I2C header
- Up to 6 infrared distance sensors
Sensor Shield
New Sumo Robot Assembled, and looking good!
Finally, the new Sumo robot is assembled, and up and moving :-):
Somo Robot Assembled
New Sumo Robot PCBs Arrived!
Finally, after several weeks delay, the new PCBs for the Mini Sumo Robots (see “Zumo Robot with WiFi and GPS”) arrived, and best of all: first test are all running fine :-).
First PCB under Debug
Sensor and Communication Shield for Sumo Robot
The semester started last week. Ideally I wanted to have the boards for the new S robot (see “Zumo Robot with WiFi and GPS“) ready in the first week. But our manufacturer was not able to get the four-layer boards with parts populated and delivered in that time frame. Until the new boards arrive, we have anyway plenty of things to cover. One thing is to build a prototype shield to host several distance sensors, nRF24L01+ and Bluetooth transceiver:
Sumo Robot with Sensor Shield and Sensors
MCU on Eclipse 