This web site describes the objectives, goals, rules, and resources for the Robotics Challenge of the CEWIT Hackathon to be held from February 15-17, 2019.
The goal of this challenge is to motivate you to think about designing and prototyping programmable, electro-mechanical devices. In doing so, you begin to appreciate the importance of learning STEM fundamentals in a fun and exciting design context while also learning to communicate ideas and working in a team.
Each participating team will design, prototype, and program a robot which will complete a multi-zone challenge of locomotion (both autonomous and remote-controlled) and manipulation.
The robot will have to function in both the autonomous or remote controlled mode using Bluetooth and should be designed to move and complete a task using the provided robot kit called SnappyXO and a mechatronics kit containing sensors, actuators, and an Arduino Mega microcontroller. You can borrow additional parts from our library as well, if required.
See details of the challenge at this page.
Sunday, February 17, 2019, 9:30 am (all teams and robots should be in room 237 by 9 am on Sunday to be considered for the competition.)
CEWIT at Stony Brook University, NY
See some example robots designed and prototyped using SnappyXO kit.
SnappyXO is a design-driven, novel, low-cost, intuitive, and modular patent pending robotics kit (http://www.snappyxo.com) consisting of a hardware and software for designing mechanisms for robot motions. This robot kit was invented by Stony Brook Mechanical Engineering professor Dr. Anurag Purwar.
This Robotics Challenge is being organized by CEWIT Robotics Team led by Prof. Anurag Purwar, CEWIT, and Stony Brook University Mechanical Engineering.
All copyrights reserved. Dr. Anurag Purwar