Pi Wars 2020

https://piwars.org/2020-competition/

Retrospective:

• Build 100% new robot
• Seperate batteries and PSU for Pi
• Resettable fuses
• Stepper or smaller motors
• Move slow and accurate
• 3 identical robots (yet clearly identifable!)
• Plan and deadlines
• Start earlier
• Strict change control & test regime
• Pi Compute
• Explore offload motor control to Arduino (if not stepper)
• Better time of flight
• More accurate reproduction of challenges
• No cheap motor controllers
• Pixy is good
• PID was good for speedtest
• Indexed connectors
• Component test framework
• Software test framework / robot simulator
• Robot every other Tuesday (beware meeting clashes, eventually that will intersect)
• Evaluate using Python / ROS
• Better aesthetics * LEDs,
• Better screen
• VR / FPV * 360
• Streaming telemetry
• Rebuild NERF gun pcb
• Compressed air nerf cannon
• TH components only
• Stay within current limits of components :D (or add a chimney)
• Laser cut chassis
• Alu floor pan
• Nylon locking nuts
• More magnets (screw mountable)
• Restart quicker
• Watchdog Pi
• Solve controller syncing issue
• Physical button to navigate menu
• Get more sponsors (BT, Broadcom)
• Fix down hardware even in prototype (no dangling boards)