Category Archives: Robot Games

Cancellation of CNRG hits the news

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Wow, this was a bit unexpected. I was pinged by Ashley Burke from the CBC about a piece on the cancellation of the Canadian National Robot Games (CNRG) on Thursday last week. Early Friday I did a quick interview with … Continue reading →

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Starting to put stuff together for CNRG

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Starting to put my new minisumo and firefighter designs together. I put together a small flame sensor using IR phototransistors. I’ll need to either print or CNC a lid for it. The idea is that the 11 sensors give a … Continue reading →

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Lazy summer and a sumo sneak peak

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

I’m out visiting relatives in Saskatchewan so progress on robots and posts on this blog have suffered a bit. I’m starting to think about the CNRG robot games in November which are coming like a freight train. Any robots that … Continue reading →

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Videos from the CNRG/Ottawa Robot Games 2011

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

I finally finished uploading all the CNRG/ORE Robot Games videos to Youtube! Time Lapse of the entire event: MiniSumo Line Racing Part 1 Line Racing Part 1 Line Following Levels 1 and 2 Line Following Level 3 Line Following Level … Continue reading →

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CNRG/ORE Ottawa Robot Games 2011 were awesome!

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Wow!!!!! Saturday went fast! I had tons of fun. Congratulations to all the winners and a big thank you to the volunteers that came out today to help me along (Rob, Norm, Albert and Luc!). Thanks to everyone that came … Continue reading →

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Built a new batch of SumoORE minisumo controllers

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

Building up one last batch of SumoORE minisumo controllers before the CNRG/Ottawa Robot Games on June 11th. Still need to solder on the IR detectors/transmitters, but I generally wait until I’ve got them in the chassis before doing that. I … Continue reading →

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Building wheels for line followers

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

The LineORE line followers come with a 36mm wheels made from sintra and an o-ring. Depending on the motor gear ratio used in the particular robot, that gives up to around 80cm/s. That’s pretty peppy for the line following and … Continue reading →

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5 SumoOREs out in the wild

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

There are 5 sumoORE robots roaming the wilds of Ottawa… Even had to part with my personal one! So tonight I sat down and built up a new one. New wheels showed up from Solarbotics so this time I went … Continue reading →

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Robot Army

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

My sumo army is slowly growing… I ran out of wheels so one of them is still in pieces. Poor little robot…. it just wants to fight! I’ll have these at the O.R.E. meeting tonight (May 9, 2011) for any … Continue reading →

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SumoORE production underway

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Aaron Ramsey

SumoORE production line is running at full capacity. ;-). Cutting chassis for these guys this afternoon and then I’ll have plenty for the time being.

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