2014-Fall - MAEcraft Robotics

MAECraft Robotics

MAE3 Fall 2014

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The Minecraft video game has over 100 million registered users, and allows players to mine for resources and build what ever they like. This quarter MAE3 students will compete in a Minecraft inspired challenge and build actual robots to mine and craft! There will be mine shafts of iron ore with a few treasured diamonds on the playing field. Each team will build robots that will extract these resources from the mine shafts and build their structures. The goal is to build the highest structures with double points for diamonds.

Playing Field at Start of Contest

Playing Field:

The playing field will be split into two halves with 3 mine shafts on each side. The end zone of each side will contain the building area. Each robot will start in a designated 10x10x10in starting area. Once the contest begins, teams will mine resources (ore) from any of six resource (ore) dispensers. Students will place their ore into their own building area to score points. At the end of the 60 second contest, the quantity, type, and the height of the ore in the building area will determine the team's final score.

Scoring:

Students will attempt to stack as many ore as high as possible in their building area. There are two types of ore, diamond and iron. Diamond is worth twice as many points as iron.The higher the block, the more points it is worth. The first row is worth 1 point each, second row 2 points, third row 3 points, etc... Remember, Diamonds are worth twice as much points!

Example of 4 Iron Ore Stacked

See Full Contest Description for complete details.

Robot Contest Results from December 17, 2014

Contest Winners

First Place: Team Rocket (Team 40). Dylan Steiner, Aaron Ong, Chris Lee, Daisy Ojeda

Second Place: The Mavericks (Team 8). Carina Cornejo, Trevor Irwin, Javad Safavi, Ivan D Voroshilov

Complete Contest Pyramid and Results  

Pyramid 1, Pyramid 2, Pyramid 3, Top 3

High Quality Presentation Award

Team 15

Team 36

High Quality Animation Awards

Team 2:  Grill Skillz. Sam Ozenbaugh, Spencer Christensen, Merari Santana-Carbajal

Team 39: A Mess of Awesome Engineers. Shubhanker Kapoor, Stuart Sapia, Kat Thongnoppakun, Maria Winters

High Quality Design Feature Awards

Team 07 - Bro-bot.4-Bar Gripper and 3D Printed Parts. Brandon Schwendeman, Rohan Kurse, Giovanni Coronado, Winson Tjahjono