Video Friday: SparkFun Autonomous Robot Race

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 24 of April , 2009 at 3:10 am

Last week, SparkFun Electronics hosted the first annual SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition around their headquarters in Colorado. Originally an employee-only event, it was opened up to customers as well, and sixteen teams showed up with both UGVs and UAVs. Only two vehicles managed to complete the entire course (including a UAV), but it looks like a fun time was had by all, and the fire department only had to be called once.

You can read more details about the race at the link below, and the UGV team that successfully finished (that would be, the Deathpod 3000 by Team Mookemobile) has a bunch of details on their build here.

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