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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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  • in reply to e14phil

    Blimey, that is the best news, thank you so much. I knew would win but was unsure if my entry would make the mark as had such a great entry as well.

     

    Now the challenge is over I can reveal that I have never used or owned a 3D printer; I tried to make my own a few years ago from various odds and ends...it never got finished as I could not work out how to make the extruder. Therefore this really is fantastic for me as there are so many things I wish to make in general and to support my E14 projects. For starters I should treat R2D4 to some new, lightweight plastic wheelsimage. I cannot guarantee that occassionally some wood or paper mache will still appear in my projects - as old habits are hard to break - but they will be mixed with shiny 3D printed parts.

     

    thanks again to the E14 team, STMicroelectronics and TE Connectivity.

     

    Rod