Herts robot Hackathon

The BEng Robotic and AI team at the University of Hertfordshire are proud to present the Herts Robotic Hackathon competition.

The Herts Robot Hackathon is the debut of a robotics challenge aimed at developing solutions for real world challenges. In particular this will include developing a wheeled robot to tackle a navigation, obstacle avoidance and vision based challenge. The competition invites undergraduate participants to come along and use a provided kit* to design, develop and program a real robot that can meet a topical challenge. Each Kit will include a Raspberry PI and SD card with OS/Common libraries pre-installed. Participants will have the opportunity to explore and develop a robot in a team based setting utilizing a range of components giving significant freedom in approaching the challenge and drawing on own experience. The video above gives an example of one robot previously built for a "football" challenge.

The competition welcomes participants with different levels of experiences. Teams will be balanced to reflect ability. Academic and industry partners will also be on hand to provide guidance on the challenges and judge the competition. Prizes and certifications of participation will be available.

Planed itinerary for the day

10am-10:30am Event opening

10:30am-11am Team Briefing

11am-1pm Build and Programing session 1

1pm -2pm Lunch

2pm-4pm Build and Programing session 2

4pm-5pm Challenge/Demo

Please note tickets will be limited. Eventbrite tickets are only an expression of interest, confirmation will be sent directly to the participants via email and by the latest 20/06/2022.

*Further Kit information

Each Kit will contain 2 raspberry Pis a 3b and a Zero-W with raspbian os pre-installed. In addition a number of sample codes will be available to get you started. While python is the suggested programing language you may also use c/c++.

Each Kit will also contain a number of motors/wheels/sensors and motors controllers. The kits will not require soldering to put together. You will be able to power the robots via a provided USB power bank or a battery pack.

The Kits must be returned in good condition after the event.