Hello, World!
We are Brian² , competitors in the Pi Wars 2024 robotics competition. Welcome to our blog!
Brian² is a team of two Brians (because two Brians are better than one): Brian Corteil and Brian Starkey.
We’re both Pi Wars veterans, with Brian C having competed in 5 previous Pi Wars competitions, and Brian S having competed in 3; and have decided to join forces this year with our entry.
Our basic plan is to enter a Tiny 4WD-derived design, from Brian C’s Coretec Robotics - because, despite being its creator, Brian C has never entered a Tiny in Pi Wars! (Though plenty of others have).
There’ll be a future post on the design and history of the Tiny 4WD chassis. For now, the basic essentials are:
- Overall chassis size, shape and design from a Tiny 4WD
- Pimoroni N20 Micro Metal Gearmotors, with encoders, x4
- Pimoroni Mecanum Wheels, x4
- Pimoroni Motor 2040 quad motor driver
- No, we aren’t sponsored…
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
- Raspberry Pi Camera (precise version tbd)
- Flashy lights
- ★Sensors★ (exact complement tbd)
- 2S Lithium battery (exact size/shape tbd)
Right now we have each built a broadly-the-same-but-slightly-different Tiny 4WD using the parts above, and we’ll be converging on a single final robot as we progress.
Trying out the @cammakespace robot club arena built by @usedbytes
— Brian Corteil 🤖 (@CannonFodder) November 12, 2022
Plans for line following, obstacle course plus maze floors and club league challenges. pic.twitter.com/P2t2Nu0ULV
There’s much more to come… we’re aiming for mostly autonomous, hopefully some robot arm action, and zombie-slaying weaponry (of course).
Author: Brian S
Last modified on 2023-11-01