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Sumo-Robots Competition at MEDC Singapore 2007 on 8 June 2007

In preparation for MEDC Singapore 2007, I'm here in the US at MEDC 2007 collecting content and pre-meeting our Redmond speakers.  One of the things I was most looking forward to is learning more about the Sumo-Robots competition straight from the Robotics team.  Here's a quick 5 min video on what Sumo-Robots are:

Thanks to the Robotics team, I'll be bringing 10 of these bad-boys back to Singapore for our own local Sumo-Robots competition.  As David said in the video, getting started with programming the logic for these robots should take about 20 mins.  All the HW interfacing work has been pre-done for you and all you have to do is to work out the "attack" logic.

Here's what you need:

  1. Visual Studio 2005 (Express, Standard, Pro, Team System)
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/
  2. Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 (CTP May 2007, installed on-top of Visual Studio)
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=97D9FCEF-B4A0-4F5F-BA25-6D5893CAC376&displaylang=en
  3. Robot Sumo Simulation (CTP May 2007)
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A9E73C19-303E-4B3E-852E-5593E596AEC0&displaylang=en

More info:

Posted: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:18 PM by Chewy Chong

Comments

Technical Bits said:

As most of you might have known, MEDC is coming to Singapore this year round! It's going to be held on

# May 1, 2007 2:27 PM

yizhe said:

There's some channel 9 videos by the robortic teams demo-ing the visual programming language debugger (VPL) for these sumo bots at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=303072

The VPL is uber cool and makes it extremely easy to program and debug on these roborts.

# May 1, 2007 11:56 PM

Chewy's Blog said:

Singapore! Are you ready for our local Sumo-Robot competition with Microsoft Robotics Studio? If you

# May 21, 2007 11:49 PM

Chewy's Blog said:

Our students at the Singapore Microsoft Innovation Center has finished the complete set of videos to

# May 23, 2007 4:09 PM

puahhl said:

BTW, how do we sign up for to participate in the competition?

# May 27, 2007 10:19 AM

Chewy Chong said:

SGDotNet is the organizers.  I've just made a post about how to sign up.  The MEDC event "showcase" competition is over but SGDotNet is doing another one soon.  Check out their site at http://www.sgdotnet.org.

Good luck!

# June 10, 2007 9:27 PM

Chewy's Bog said:

Our students at the Singapore Microsoft Innovation Center has finished the complete set of videos to

# August 15, 2007 5:34 PM

Chewy's Bog said:

Singapore! Are you ready for our local Sumo-Robot competition with Microsoft Robotics Studio? If you

# August 15, 2007 5:34 PM

chewy said:

Our students at the Singapore Microsoft Innovation Center has finished the complete set of videos to

# October 23, 2007 11:13 PM

chewy said:

Singapore! Are you ready for our local Sumo-Robot competition with Microsoft Robotics Studio? If you

# October 23, 2007 11:13 PM
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