I LOVE it so much when people make use of something I've shared or written about and I feel really pleased that Calderdale college elected to build their PiWars entry robot based on the opensource MTV Robot platform that I designed and wrote about in Hackspace magazine back in issue 37. The MTV robot is built around a really cheap tracked chassis that can be bought online and a stack of 3D printed parts you can add yourself.
For those of you who don't know PiWars is a brilliant robotics competition that anyone can enter and your robot has to compete in numerous different fun challenges. It's a really lovely community and even if you don't enter it's a fun group to watch to get interesting ideas for robotic projects!
The Calderdale college team made numerous changes and add ons to the MTV platform and the team came 5th overall in a beginners class of 15 entries and they even came first in one event "up the garden path" which was a challenge where you had to control the robot with voice commands. Superb stuff! Read more about the excellent Calderdale team/experience on this great blogpost and grab the free PDF of Hackspace magazine 37 to get the links and info for the MTV design files.
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