Line Following at the Science Center

Hello everyone!

Tonight was an amazing turnout for the Robomo First Friday Line Following Competition!!!

We had 28 entries! That’s a new record of participation for any Robomo event!

In a couple days I will send one more email bomb with the competition video showing all the robots competing.
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And lastly, we need to send a giant congrats to Mark the builder of the robot named “Mark2” which was the winning entry!

His winning run time was 19 seconds!!!

To remind everyone, each touch of the robot was a 3 second time penalty, and any kit robot entry got an additional 10 second penalty for not being homemade.

Here were the standings:

Names Run Time Penalty’s Total Time
Silent Bob 3 min 17 sec 3 sec 3 min 2 sec
Jay 12 min 0 sec 23 min
DF Round 1 min 14sec 10sec 1 min 24 sec
Skull LF 2 min 29 sec 0sec 2 min 29 sec
Yellow Rat 1 min 19 sec 10 sec 1 min 29 sec
Growler 40 sec 10 sec 50sec
Chief Knock A Homer 2 min 3 sec 2 min 3 sec
Spidy LF 2 min 10 sec 3 sec 2 min 13 sec
Zumo 49sec 10 sec 59 sec
DF Rover 1 min 40 sec 16 sec 1 min 56 sec
Screaming Dummy 2 min 4 sec 0 sec 2 min 4 sec
RBS Tank 1 min 43 sec 0 sec 1 min 43 sec
FCLF 1 min 10 sec 23 sec 1 min 33 sec
POS 1 min 2 sec 10 sec 1 min 12 sec
3pi DNF 40 sec 10sec 50 sec
Yellow 1 min 21 sec 10sec 1 min 31 sec
Cousin It 1 min 2 sec 0 sec 1 min 2 sec
Mark 1 28 sec 0 sec 28 sec
Mark 2 19 sec 0 sec 19 sec
Stitches 38 sec 10 sec 48 sec
1Pi 2 min 7 sec 6 sec 2 min 13 sec
Tethered USB 1 min 10 sec 0 sec 1 min 10 sec
Pocket Bot.IO 1 min 4 sec 0 sec 1 min 4sec
Zbot 1 min 3 sec 0 sec 1 min 3 sec
Magician 59 sec 0 sec 59 sec
TruckBot DNF
RoadRunner DNF
Gobbit 1 min 2 sec 0 sec 1 min 2 sec