FIGURE 25.
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FIGURE 27.
RobotFest
PennBots returned to the National
Electronics Museum on Saturday, April
30th, to provide fighting robot
demonstrations as part of RobotFest.
After rubbing elbows with B9 and
R2D2 (Figure 14), checking out the
fighting tanks (Figure 15) and
Battleships (Figure 16), observing the
3D printers make chess pieces and
robot parts (Figure 17), watching the
Boy Scouts demonstrate their robots as
part of earning their Robotics Merit
Badge (Figure 18), and just taking in
the great robotics atmosphere, the
demonstration started with a game of
Bot Hockey using PennBots club bots
(Figure 19). Needless to say, it didn’t
take long for a fight to break out at the
Bot Hockey game, and soon the
PennBots club fighting robots, as well
as some returning Hack-A-Bot fighting
robots, joined the melee. RobotFest
attendees took turns driving PennBots
club fighting robots all afternoon
(Figure 20). The main attraction on
day two of RobotFest was the fighting
robot competition. Participants in the
competition (Figure 21) included three
returning Hack-A-Bot workshop alumni,
and one guest driver from a local high
school who was attending the
competition as part of an engineering
study program. Fourteen Insect Class
bots fought for the gold in Flea, Ant,
and Beetle weight classes.
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Flea
1st Place
Dust Pan
Dick
Kelley
Brutus
Dave
Graham
3rd Place
Baby V
Josh
Gaus
Ant
Beetle
Crimson
Eric Hu
Clamper
Dick Kelley
2nd
Place
Snaggletooth
Dave Graham
The Mole
Dave Graham
Slicer
Dick Kelley
DisDroid
Harry Bates
Table 2. Robotfest Winners.
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