Wednesday 30 October 2019

Welcome to Eco Amica


Competing in the 2019 competition
Welcome to the first post about our journey leading up to the Pi Wars competition 2020. We were inspired to enter after the great experience of taking part in the 2019 competition. We have fixed the code for the remote control challenges we used in 2019 and realised that the code shouldn't have worked!

James did a lightning talk at the Pi Wars mini conference on 5 October, where he also bought a RedBoard+ to make our robot more competitive. On 22 October we found two Nerf guns in a charity shop (to reduce waste and support a charity) which we hope to use for the Zombie Apocalypse challenge. We are trying to sort out some code for a distance sensor to work with the controller code to stop the robot bashing into the walls on the escape route challenge.

Robot wired up with RedBoard (left) Nerf guns (right)