Three students of University of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland) got funding from Farnell in connection with organizing robotic festival ROBOCOMP ( www.robocomp.info ) and because of that arised project of buidling mini-sumo robot.
At the begining are needed ideas and realization of construction on computer program. If we want to build professional robot, we have to do everything profesionally. Quite a lot of parts won't be home made and they will be done by adequat firm. Then we will be shure, that it will be well-made and consistent with our expectations. We have about month to build it, so we have to work.
Now designing of construction is drawing to an end and next week we want to commission realization of it. Nearly we should get rims and after that we will mold tires in special forms. Of course electronic is very important, we will use ARM STM32 microcontroler. After designing PCB we will buy necessary things and assemble all of parts.
Maciek