Sumobots

SUMOBOT COMPETITION 10/29/11

ANNOUNCING - LVL1's 2nd annual Sumobot tournament will be on October 29th, 2011, 8PM at 814e Broadway (our home). There will be a Halloween party following the fun. All are welcome to join in the festivities. You may even get to see the world famous fire breathing pony, Buttercup! You have a couple of months to build your bot. There will be prizes and eternal glory!

UPDATE! Solarbotics just sent some awesome prizes for the sumo winners! If you are looking for some sumo parts, please check out what they can offer... http://www.solarbotics.com/

UPDATE 2: The ring we will use is made of MDF painted FLAT BLACK with a GLOSS WHITE border ring. The rubber surface of the last ring was just to hard to source, build, maintain and paint.

Here is the poster: http://wiki.lvl1.org/images/4/46/Sumo2011.pdf

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To learn more about lvl1 goto: http://www.lvl1.org or http://wiki.lvl1.org or check out our google group at http://groups.google.com/group/lvl1/

To learn about SumoBots in general, check out the links below...

Rules

We will follow these rules: http://www.robotics-society.org/mini-sumo.shtml

Double elimination tournament

The ring we will use is made of MDF painted FLAT BLACK with a GLOSS WHITE border ring. The rubber surface of the last ring was just to hard to source, build, maintain and paint.

Parts

Here is a good list if you want to build your own. I bet you can build a bot for $30, if you already have an Arduino! I plan on doing this.

http://groups.google.com/group/tuftsroboticsclub/web/anatomy-of-a-sumobot

Sensor Info http://www.acroname.com/robotics/info/articles/sharp/sharp.html

Kits

Parallax $240 - Comes with 2 bots. Kit works well, but expensive http://www.parallax.com/Store/Education/KitsandBoards/tabid/182/ProductID/319/List/1/Default.aspx?SortField=ProductName,ProductName

Sumovore Mini Sumo $98.50 http://www.solarbotics.com/products/k_sv/

Mark III $92 http://www.junun.org/MarkIII/Store.jsp

TAB Sumobot http://www.amazon.com/SUMO-BOT-Remote-Controlled-Programmable-Sumo-Bot/dp/0071411933

Links

Gallery of Sumobots

http://www.er-online.co.uk/minisumo/wiki/index.php?page=Gallery

http://www.solarbotics.com/

http://www.pololu.com/

http://www.sparkfun.com/

Nice Bot, but not a Sumo

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/tinybot/

Another Arduino Sumo

http://noise0.altervista.org/

Sumo from Tufts Univ

http://www.tuftsroboticsclub.com/current-projects/sumobots

Thingiverse of above sumo http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1548

Check this one out http://www.huv.com/miniSumo/seeker2/

And another one http://letsmakerobots.com/node/19648

What about Legos? http://www.nxtprograms.com/mini_sumo/index.html

http://www.wildrobots.com/

http://www.elex.camosun.bc.ca/robotics/mini_sumo.htm

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