Annual Talent Contest (December 2012)
Contest Rules
You can review the contest rules here.
Entries
Int 2.0 - A Lego NXT based robot that can do either line following, or object avoidance.
Marble Maze - An autonomous marble maze solver, implemented on an 8-pin PIC microcontroller. It has an internal bitmap for the maze, with all code done in assembly. It can also solve the maze in reverse.
POB - A Lego NXT based robot that can grab objects, and run away when it trips a bump sensor.
Light Cube - A 4x4x4 LED cube, using an MSP430, two 8-bit shift registers, and transistors.
Santa Hat
Link 2 - Based on a RoboScout body, but with custom arms, voice synth, and head.
SantaBot - In addition to hacking the Elvis head, and replacing the H-bridges with servo boards, programmed all the servos in EZ robot, and added voice recognition, speech synthesis, and simple arms.
Results
| Contestant | Electronics | Mechanics | Software | Originality | Total |
| Miles - Int 2.0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 16 (2) |
| Jim - Marble Maze | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| Yoshi - POB | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| John - Light Cube | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| John - Santa Hat | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| Bob - Link 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 22 (1) |
| Thomas - SantaBot | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 15 (3) |
1st Prize : Link 2
2nd Prize : Int 2.0
3rd Prize : SantaBot
Jinux from Robotis donated an OLLO kit on behalf of Robotis Corporation as a prize for the contest!
