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Show HN: BattleBots Made by 5th to 8th Graders in Robotics Club

by 20years on 5/6/19, 2:42 AM with 21 comments

• by DevOrc on 5/6/19, 10:36 AM

  My high school robotics team is working on something similar with Raspberry Pi's. There is not much documentation but you can check out the code here: https://github.com/InspireRobotics/sumobots

• by chromaton on 5/6/19, 3:19 PM

  This is pretty cool for teaching Arduino, but most fighting robot builders on a budget use HobbyKing/Turnigy remote control systems. These are purpose built for this kind of thing, quite reliable, and cheap, especially if you wait for a sale.

• by GeneticGenesis on 5/6/19, 4:16 PM

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  3) The GDPR opt out process fails every time.

  Solid violations of GDPR, well done.

• by ptah on 5/6/19, 3:16 PM

  the cookie permission popup is impossible to close

• by bigDICK on 5/6/19, 5:38 AM

  I'm a little jealous if I'm honest. I'm going to guess that the junior high I went to still doesn't have the resources for a club like this.