Meet Norris

The final product for the eWeek competition was Norris, inspired by Chuck Norris. Actually it was inspired by Team 1902 Exploding Bacon (FIRST Robotics). The point of the competition is to drive around a 2 level course, collecting the most colored balls and returning them to your homebase before time, about 3 minutes, expires. A street sweeper method was employed with this design and the robot kept the balls in its carrage rather than dropping off the balls at homebase every so often.

The balls were held in the back of the robot (on the right, below the Mindstorm brick).

Of course, a photo of Chuck Norris was only appropriate.

Developing in C# became more of a hassle as designs kept changing and work load increased. I ended up using MRDS environment for the competition. I'll touch on that in the next post. I did develop an understanding for interfacing to the sensors in C#, which I'll explain over several posts.

There was also a presentation video done (extra points to your score). It uses video clips from movies and a song but no copyrigth infringement is intended: