Beginner Buildathon
Red Robot Hackathon
The Red Robot Hackathon is a beginner robotics hackathon where teams compete to build a robot to complete a "game" in 48 hours. Teams then play against each other in alliances of 2 until just two teams remain.
My team ranked 1st and won the event undefeated with a 6-0 record.
Here are some video demos
Competition
The Challenge
- This year's challenge was themed around an arcade gumball machine
- Robots had to press a button on the Gumball Machine to dispense gumballs
- They then had to pick up the gumballs and score them into a goal with three different heights
- The tournament ranked teams with 3 qualifier matches with average score acting as the tiebreaker
- Teams then chose alliances and fought through a playoff bracket
Mechanism
Robot Overview
- Intakes "gumballs" off the floor through a laser-cut geared rubber band system
- Laser-cut passive mechanism on the front to push the Gumball Machine button by driving into it
- A servo controls the scoring mechanism, which stores "gumballs" after intake and lifts them up to the goal
- 2 wheel drivetrain run on two motors