Western Canada Robot Games 2010

On May 15  I competed at the Robot Games held at the Aerospace museum in Calgary.  I entered my robot called "Prime" in the Beginner Mini Sumo Competition.  This is my first competition.  It took 3 best of 3 matches in the finals to determine the winner and in the end I got 2nd place.
Here are some videos from the final matches.

Win #1


Win #2


Win #3


Loss #1


Loss#2



Loss#3

Mini Sumo vs. not so mini sumo Episode#3

Another battle between Mini Sumo and the not so mini sumo except this time a giant human gets into the fight.

Mini Sumo vs. not so mini sumo Episode#2

Here is another picture of Mini Sumo's first victim.....

Mini Sumo vs. not so mini sumo Episode#1

Here is a video of my Mini Sumo's first unofficial opponent.  The opponent started with severe sensor issues so it wasn't a fair fight but it does show the potential.

Pictures of Completed Mini Sumo

Mini Sumo Assembly Pictures

Mini Sumo

This weekend my Dad helped me build my first Mini Sumo Robot. This was a kit from Solarbotics. I did all of the soldering myself but my Dad had to help me a little putting some of the pieces together.
It only took us two days to put it together and everything worked as soon as we powered it up.  It took a while to tune all of the pots but it seems to be working awesome so far.
I am still thinking about what to name the robot.