Chewy Chong works in Southeast Asia and lives in Singapore. He does something technology related.
Sumo-Robots Competition at MEDC Singapore 2007 on 8 June 2007
In preparation for MEDC Singapore 2007, I’m here in the US at MEDC 2007 collecting content and pre-meeting our Redmond speakers. One of the things I was most looking forward to is learning more about the Sumo-Robots competition straight from the Robotics team. Here’s a quick 5 min video on what Sumo-Robots are:
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Thanks to the Robotics team, I’ll be bringing 10 of these bad-boys back to Singapore for our own local Sumo-Robots competition. As David said in the video, getting started with programming the logic for these robots should take about 20 mins. All the HW interfacing work has been pre-done for you and all you have to do is to work out the “attack” logic.
Here’s what you need:
- Visual Studio 2005 (Express, Standard, Pro, Team System)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/ - Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 (CTP May 2007, installed on-top of Visual Studio)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=97D9FCEF-B4A0-4F5F-BA25-6D5893CAC376&displaylang=en - Robot Sumo Simulation (CTP May 2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A9E73C19-303E-4B3E-852E-5593E596AEC0&displaylang=en
More info:
- MEDC USA 2007 Blog
http://www.medc2007.com/blog/ - Microsoft Robotics and Robotics Studio
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/default.aspx - Sign-up for MEDC Singapore 2007 on Friday 8 June at Suntec Convention Center
http://www.microsoft.com/singapore/events/medc/default.mspx
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http:// 3:56 pm on May 1, 2007 Permalink |
There’s some channel 9 videos by the robortic teams demo-ing the visual programming language debugger (VPL) for these sumo bots at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=303072The VPL is uber cool and makes it extremely easy to program and debug on these roborts.
http:// 2:19 am on May 27, 2007 Permalink |
BTW, how do we sign up for to participate in the competition?
http:// 1:27 pm on June 10, 2007 Permalink |
SGDotNet is the organizers. I’ve just made a post about how to sign up. The MEDC event “showcase” competition is over but SGDotNet is doing another one soon. Check out their site at http://www.sgdotnet.org.Good luck!