Pi Wars 2020
From ipswichmakerspace
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)
