Månad: mars 2024

This blog post is part of Makers Jönköping entry to Pi Wars 2024. Pi Wars is an international, challenge-based robotics competition in which teams build Raspberry Pi-controlled robots and then compete in various non-destructive challenges to earn points. The competition takes place in Cambridge UK, over a single weekend and at the end of each day, prizes, medals and trophies are awarded to those competing.

The Zombie killer Pi Wars robot will be an American school bus design of course. Because have you ever seen a disasterous zombie apocalypse movie without an American school bus? Exactly.

We are grateful we might actually have a design this year and this one is looking great indeed!

This blog post is part of Makers Jönköping entry to Pi Wars 2024. Pi Wars is an international, challenge-based robotics competition in which teams build Raspberry Pi-controlled robots and then compete in various non-destructive challenges to earn points. The competition takes place in Cambridge UK, over a single weekend and at the end of each day, prizes, medals and trophies are awarded to those competing.

For the Zombie Apocalypse we have designed a nerf shooter. We will load it with laser guided munitions. Here are some pictures of our Zombie killer machine.

This blog post is part of Makers Jönköping entry to Pi Wars 2024. Pi Wars is an international, challenge-based robotics competition in which teams build Raspberry Pi-controlled robots and then compete in various non-destructive challenges to earn points. The competition takes place in Cambridge UK, over a single weekend and at the end of each day, prizes, medals and trophies are awarded to those competing.

Of all the one hundred thousand Raspberry Pi motor driver HATs on the market there was not a single one that fitted our needs. Exactly. As we are makers we are used to make it ourselves. So for this project we designed a PCB which would manage the sensors and drive motors. We wanted to make it as professional as possible but still manage to assemble in a home setting.

All components worth mentioning are surface mount and down to 0608″ size capacitors and resistors. Below are some photos of the PCB that we made for Pi Wars 2024. We ordered PCB and solder stencil from Aisler who are a PCB manufacturer based in Europe.

At the maker club we have a IC Heater oven where we are able to surface mount the boards.

This blog post is part of Makers Jönköping entry to Pi Wars 2024. Pi Wars is an international, challenge-based robotics competition in which teams build Raspberry Pi-controlled robots and then compete in various non-destructive challenges to earn points. The competition takes place over a single weekend and at the end of each day, prizes, medals and trophies are awarded to those competing.

As always we like to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoy the glow of the state of the art. So we wanted to use this new AI technology everybody is talking about – just because, because why not, right?

Well to be more specific, we wanted to train a machine learning model to recognize barrels for the eco-disaster challenge and use the model for navigating the eco-disaster arena.

This ambitious idea of employing machine learning to solve the problem would also include training the model from a simulated environment.

After pain-stakingly recording images of our 3d-printed barrels and annotating them, we trained the model with some promising results.

Further training yielded even better results (which is what I try to say to my children every day to no avail). Even Australians will be pleased to no longer be classified as Green Barrel.

This blog post is part of Makers Jönköping entry to Pi Wars 2024. Pi Wars is an international, challenge-based robotics competition in which teams build Raspberry Pi-controlled robots and then compete in various non-destructive challenges to earn points. The competition takes place in Cambridge UK, over a single weekend and at the end of each day, prizes, medals and trophies are awarded to those competing.