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Sixth Sense Design Challenge : Winners Announcement

Sixth Sense Design Challenge: Winners Announcement

After 11+ weeks of designing, researching, prototyping, coding and testing, our Sixth Sense Design Challenge has come to a close.

Our challengers were asked to build an autonomous vehicle with a sixth sense using the STMicroelectronics SensorTile and TE Connectivity sensors.

The judges have tallied up their thoughts and feedback for all 10 challengers, and they have finalized the grand prize and runner up winners, as well as the finishers.

 

We are very pleased to congratulate all the winners of the Sixth Sense Design Challenge, as well as all of its participants!

 

The Winners:

 

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Grand Prize

's Graffiti Bot

Project Summary

 

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(It says E14 if you squint hard enough!)

 

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Douglas created an autonomous robot that produces a liquid canvas drawing. The project involves mechanical, electronics, software, and hydraulic design. See all blogs.

 

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Runner Up

’s R2B4 Bot

Project Summary

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Rod wanted to help those working in construction by creating a robot to haul materials like sand or gravel to act as a project assistant.  He made his own PCB to host the TE Magnet sensor so that it would be board mountable. See all blogs.

 

Other Finisher

's Automatic Weeding Robot.

Although this project is unfinished, we loved the novel approach to weeding and even building a (very dangerous looking) Motorized Scissors rig to manage our yards. Project Summary

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  • Congratulations to Dough and all the participants. Well deserved prizes  

    Now is midnight, too late 4 comments in detail . I'll update tomorrow .

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    As above, I loved this project as I saw your first posts. There is also a historical reason; during the mid of '80s I worked for a couple of years in an Italian company R&D Dept developing the firmware for big (almost of the size of your robot) printing head to sign with a barcode along the production line the previous approval or not automated test results. In that time, there was nothing like today and I remember the development of the Windows for Workgroup industrial for embedded machines creating the UI in pure C to communicate with the hardware in pure 386 assembler language. I have an idea of what does it means to sync the movements with the ink ejection on the move... ALl my respect.

     

    Also, the second (but is there a "second" in this kind of projects?) robot by   sounds an exciting idea. In the blog, final videos you use a 3D printed omniwheel, is a custom design? I am curious to know more about its building. Another great piece of making full of creativity.

     

    Enrico

  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    It was definitely much harder back in those days. It would not have been possible to attempt this project in a reasonable time frame. I used to make mobile computers with DEC LSI11 computers, programmed in Macro and Fortrran, (way back in the dark ages) but a robot based on them would look more like a big lawn mower and run from a car battery.

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  • in reply to balearicdynamics

    It was definitely much harder back in those days. It would not have been possible to attempt this project in a reasonable time frame. I used to make mobile computers with DEC LSI11 computers, programmed in Macro and Fortrran, (way back in the dark ages) but a robot based on them would look more like a big lawn mower and run from a car battery.

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