PiWars 2018: Team Pi-O-Steer's day out
2018-5-9
By Sumit Kumar Maitra
Finally managed to collate all the images from friends and family who had come along to PiWars 2018. Here's a glimpse of Team Pi-O-Steer's action packed day at PiWars 2018.
A special mention to Anagha-Ilyas and family, Ankita-Pranab and family, Gauri-Saji and family, Rupali-Karthik and family and Sagar Mangalani for driving down Cambridge to support team Pi-o-steer. Thanks folks, love you all!
Many thanks to Sagar Manglani, Praji Purushottaman and David Pride for the pictures. Images are made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Please contact @piofthings for commercial use.
PiWars 2018
Welcome to PiWars 2018
Team Pi-o-steer
The bot that could! Pi-o-steer in person complete with transparent tape finish O_o
First challenge of the day: Duck shoot. Rundown of the rules by Andy Beaty
Looks like the last minute improvisation the night before is getting us some points
Birds eye view of the PiNoon arena
Someone's got butterflies in their stomach before PiNoon :-)
Making sure the holder fits right, last minute drilling :D!
Fitting the ballon holder. This one is still a bit subjective and subject to 'fat-finger' errors :D
"The Dalek bot team were teasing us, they started it! đ đ đ" A bit of gamesmanship before the duel!
Team Pi-o-steer had a lot of support...
Team's all set!
Let the duel begin!
That got over quickly! The Dalek got to us in the second attempt
With Dalek bot team principal! Competition or not, it was awesome and friendly all around.
Next challenge was obstacle course.
It certainly was bigger than it looked
And off we go!
Pi-o-steer was really well built for this course. It powered through obstacles, moved aside barriers and jumped over speed bumps!
In the end 2 minutes and 5 seconds for a clean run got us 4th place in obstacle course
Back in the team room we practiced a little for straight line speed.
... everyone was busy
Next challenge, straight line speed. 24 feet doesn't sound much until you see it
Yup still very far away :-)
First attempt at getting it off the block failed. You can fail to 'sudo' under pressure (actual issue).
Meander bot is adjusting, but it is enough?
Yesssss... 2/3 runs were clean with best time of 10.2 seconds. Our accumulated score got us 6th place.
We had loads of support from friends and family!
There weren't just bots that were running around!
The lego Rubick's cube solver was definitely smarter at solving the cube that I am.
That neat custom controller got a special mention from none other than Dr. Lucy Rogers, for technical merit.
Ready to start with the golf course
Software cannot always makeup for hardware đĢ
Aww snap! The grabber broke!
One last shot at trying to get the bot to push the ball around (Didn't work, we had to forfeit)
Met up with friends from Discord server and Twitter. Here is Douglas whose team Rubus TITAN came 5th overall
Pit Stop!
The bot failed completely by the end of the day. The pan/tilt mechanism just wouldn't work, had to abandon this one too âšī¸
We finished tenth overall. With the famous Dr. Lucy Rogers đ
Despite finishing 10th we got a very nice bag of goodies thanks to the sponsors. We can only get better from here I guess đ¤
There ended the campaign. If we qualify, we hope to be back next year...