PBK Sumobot
January 2-18, 2025 Jumper Wires + Ultrasonic Sensors + IR Sensor + DC Motors + RGB LED on Breadboards, Arduino/C++ on Arduino Nano, Acrylic Paint on PLA Filament
This was made in a hella time crunch. Me and my friend (who isn't even from my uni/on our sumobots team) made this in practically one night. The original plan was to get it done during the winter break so we didn't have to worry about it during second sem's classes but we trolled fr.
My friend absolutely clutched up for programming on the 17th. Me and the other people on the team can shittily do python, but he was the only one who knew C++. I mean, the rest of us could have coded it, but not anything well in the one night we gave ourselves to do that 😭
The CADing, 3D printing, most of the wiring and general assembly had been finished by that time, but still. Oof was that a terrible time.
I printed out the mascot I previously made and put him on the bot, and also painted the bot pink and gold to match ❤️
Me and my friend went to bed at 4am and had to get up at 6am to get to my uni in time for the comp. That followed by another practically sleepless night (there was ANOTHER competition the same day - a 24hour one too) -- actually horrendous...
Anyways, we did a lot better than any of us thought we would! A lot of our matchups were evenly matched, so they were really fun to watch (and rewarding to win 😉). We got through the first batch, and then lost in the losers bracket of the final double-elimination tournament.
A lot of people loved how our bot looked, it was really cute. The sumobots media team took a pic and put it on their story for women in engineering-- it was so stupid, but cute anyhow
All in all it was really fun, and the goal for next year is to not make the bot in one day!! >:)
