SERVO Magazine Robot Sites

RoboFest
St. Pete Beach Community Center - St. Pete Beach, FL 

      Events include Bottle Sumo, Vcc, Game, GRAF, and UMC.

http://robofest.net 

 

University Rover Challenge 

Mars Desert Research Station, Hanksville, UT

      Student teams build rovers for an extreme desert environment.

http://urc.marssociety.org 

AUVS International Ground Robotics Competition 

Rochester, MI

      Autonomous ground robots must navigate an outdoor obstacle course within a prescribed time and speed limits.

www.igvc.org 

     
Concurso De Robótica Aguilar
Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
     Events include Line Following, Labyrinth Solving, Mini Sumo, Cockerel, and Robot Arm Challenge. 

http://electronica-aguilar.blogspot.com

Pobot Junior Cup
Sophia-Antipolic, France

      Waste collection robot challenge.

www.pobot.org 

 

Seattle Bot Battles 

Seattle Center Armory Seattle, WA

      RC vehicle combat.

www.westernalliedrobotics.com

European Robotics Hackathon 

Sonnenweg 1, 3435 Zwentendorf an der Donau Austria

      Robot hackathon at inactive nuclear reactor site.

http://enrich.european-robotics.eu

MATE ROV Competition
Long Beach City College, Long Beach, FL

      Student underwater robot challenge.

www.marinetech.org

 Clash of the Bots 

Schiele Museum, Gastonia, NC

      Events include bot hockey and RC vehicle combat.

www.carolinacombat.com 

International Autonomous Robot Contest 

E3 Civic High School, San Diego, CA

      Autonomous robots must navigate around fixed obstacles.

http://iaroc.org 

Robotic Day 

Prague, Czech Republic

      Events include Bear Rescue, Ketchup House, Line Following, Mini Sumo, and RoboCarts.

www.roboticday.org 

 

HBRC Challenge and BotLuck Dinner 

HomeBrew Robotics Club - Mountain View, CA 

     Nothing but the best part of the meeting: All Show-and-Tell featuring RoboMagellan Trials, the Original TABLEBot Challenge, FloorBot Challenge, The A-Mazing Line Maze Challenge, Robot Dance Party, and Run-what-ya-brung. 

www.hbrobotics.org

WoHooo... We Get To Build Fire Breathing Robots

Dear Mechatronics Students of 2017-2018,

I’m Mr. Burnham, and I’m super excited about the Mechatronics class next year. I just wanted to say Hi, and point you at some sites that may help you get ready. You may have seen one of my recruiting presentations at your home high school… If you did, then you know that we are going to build FIRE Breathing Robots.

Yes, We TOTALLY are going to build stuff like this... so start planning...

Here is a link to a PDF which is a Mechatronics Overview, and gives a high level introduction to what we will be learning.

• Hands on Physics <-- this will be interleaved as part of the other modules, but will satisfy the A-G "D" Science requirement 
• AC/DC Electronic Fundamentals 
• Digital Electronic Fundamentals 
• Programing with Microcontrollers 
• Programmable Logic Devices 
• Mechanical 3D design& mechanical drawing 
• Robotic Theory and Application 
• Pneumatic Systems

Here is also the official Mechatronics course flier, which is a download (sorry, we want your name and email to see it) 

Now, everyone knows that building FIRE Breathing Robots is more fun with a friend… so go find someone else to take this Mechatronics class with you. Then have them go talk to their councilor and get signed up with you.

I'm looking forward to seeing you next year.

Mr Burnham