6/21/2014 - Makeblock 5th Hackathon

[Perome]

This Saturday we held our 5th Hackathon, each team only have 24 hours to start the project and finish the task. About there’s 4 groups of hacker team from Makeblock R & D department. After one hour discussion, they made their choices and get started their amazing projects.

Team A
Project: Makeblock Solve Rubik’s Cube Robot

Gao was writing down his idea, few mins we got from the team leader that they’re going to make a robot to solve Rubik’s cube. We were very interesting to follow this project, it sounds amazing.

They built the machine and tried to use Arduino to control.

Their first testing demo.

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Everyone is laughing loud

Team B
Crazy World Cup Penalty Kick Robots (including shooter and goalkeeper)

Team C
Gobang Robot (human being VS computer)

Team D
Smartphone Screen Testing Robot

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Voting Time:

Can you tell which team is the final winner?

[Perome]

Team A

Project: Makeblock Solve Rubik’s Cube Robot

How it works:

When the robot start to work, it will identify the each side of cube patterned by camera and turn it into cube’s status. According the puzzle blindfolded solving “four-step” principle, the main board can work out all the steps of solving cube. At last, it will output the standard procedure and executed by the robot.

[paulcobbaut]

I would have voted for the ultrasonic go. It has a futuristic and elegant look.

Did it work ? Or was it impossible to play a game with it ?

[Johnny]

We are still working on the ultrasonic system 0.0. It still got some error on the location.

[indream]

It’s failure, we will upgrade this game with Raspberry Pi by hand and grid detecting.