Robofest Hawaii

 2010 game description and rules available on Competitive Gaming link above.

2010 registration and rules coming soon.  See http://robofest.net

The training session went well!  This was the first step forward toward success.  Of course none of the training could be a success without great participants.  Awesome job participants!  

This session went beyond just basic sensor training and for those who did not come, you missed out.  This took participants beyond just doing the obvious and gave them some idea on how to program these sensors.  There were wires and data hubs, calibrations and bluetooth, and the what else can we do with these sensors.

The hope is to get everyone united and share.  The reason for sharing is to raise the bar and standards.

This may not be the end.  There may be a  play session coming up.  Stay tuned.

Available now is the presentation for our Kick Off August 29th 2009.

Please observe but make sure you ask about things.  Do not assume you know exactly what it's talking about.  Missing from it is the speaker/person talking.  Sorry, file would have been too big as this was broken into a two hour session.

 Season 3 Kick off power point show file

Special thanks to the University of Hawaii College of Engineering ...

Special thanks to the University of Hawaii College of Engineering (through Act 111) for providing Hawaii public and public charter schools with seed grants for participating in this year's Hawaii Robofest season. Awardees will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis (new schools, first preference). The award will cover national and local registration for one team per
school and one activity (i.e., total: $75/school). Application deadline: September 8, 2008. Scan/email signed application to lfujioka [at] isishawaii [dot] org. Awardees will be notified via email.

Application:  09rfAPPfinal(2).pdf

Robofest is for all robotic platforms ...  Each robot entering must autonomous with no human intervention.  The robots should be able to perform the task it is programmed for based on competitive rules for game or exhibition.

LEGO Mindstorms:

RIS-RCX

NXT

Tetrix

VEX:

VEX

iRobot:

iRobot

Self made:

Cricket board

BOE

Laptop to breadboard

other similar types

Any hacked platform that qualifies as autonomous:

Aibo

Robosapien

other similar types

Can you imagine if robots could reach this level one day?  I don't know if that would be in my life time. Now I know Vader and the Troopers are not and even in fiction are not robots.  But imagine if they were.

Robofest Video a must see!!!!  <-click here

"This remote controlled (RC) car is powered by a hydrogen fuel-cell. The fuel comes from water that is broken down to Hydrogen and Oxygen, using solar power. And Corgi, the manufacturer, says water, we’re talking about plain water."

-  http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/02/h2go_fuelcell_powered_rc_car.html

Awesome R/C concept.  I would like to see robots and other toys made in this fashion.  Problem is that hydrogen and fooling around with electricity can be dangerous if not done to specs.

Lead the robot:

You will lead the robot around, but figure how you move around objects.  Figure out things step by step to understand movement.  This will help you in doing more effective programming.

http://www.freeonlinegames.com/adventure-games/gateway.html

What you build is what you get:

What you use on your robot is important to the task.

http://www.freeonlinegames.com/puzzle-games/bot-arena-3.html

Paper airplane physics:

http://www.freeonlinegames.com/adventure-games/paper-airplane.html

Tsunami wall:

http://www.freeonlinegames.com/puzzle-games/tsunami-wall.html