Infomatrix 2008 - Gold medal

26.05.08

Filed Under: Awards, Development

We continued with the robot development after the Jury’s special award in Dreamline International Design Olympiad, and tried to go to other contests. We qualified also to Busef, in Adana,Turkey, but didn’t manage to go, since it was Easter holiday in Romania. But we succeded to qualify to Infomatrix (in Bucharest, Romania), and more than that, to win a Gold Medal with our robot, in the Hardware Control. This means a great award to our effort to build all this thing, and to bring it to this state.

From Dreamline moment, we made some modifications to it, which greatly improved the opinion of the people about it:

  1. Robotic arm, with 3 servos. It can move (not turning aroung yet, but may be), pick up stuff and leave it in another place. Or push up the robot, in order to jump over some things in front of it
  2. 5 LEDs over the webcam. In Ankara, someone asked how does the robot work in the night. Then it was kind of impossible. Not it is ok - the LEDs in a complete dark room allows you even to read a book
  3. Software improvements - not it doesn’t stuck so often, and it has better control

In the following days I am planning to put here all the source-codes we have, and the protocol we use to control it. After that, my teammate will explain in some steps what he did in order to build all the electronic part.

Until then, some posts containing infos & photos from Infomatrix Contest (in Romanian)

  1. Infomatrix 2008
  2. Medalia de aur la Infomatrix 2008 (Gold medal at Infomatrix 2008)
  3. Medialie de aur la Infomatrix (Gold medal at infomatrix)
  4. Infomatrix 2008 - poze de la ceremonie (Ceremony photos)
  5. Infomatrix 2008 - Pe scurte (Briefly)
  6. Articol in ziarul Gandul: Robotul spion al elevilor romani (Article in “Gandul” newspaper: The spy robot of the Romanian pupils)
  7. Medalie de aur la Infomatrix 2008 (By Cosmin)

2 Responses to “Infomatrix 2008 - Gold medal”

  1. Claudiu

    Congratulations to both of you..
    I’m interested in how you built the robot, so.. will you(or kappacelu’) still post the schematics and connections used on the robot?

    June 5th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
  2. Kappacelu`

    @Claudiu: I will send them to you via YMess when I will have them. The right person to ask for schematics is Cosmin, but I will try to get them.
    And in a couple of weeks you can find everything on this website:D

    June 5th, 2008 at 11:57 pm

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