CONTEST CLOSED: DYNAMIXEL Miniature Machines Contest

[Jonathon]

Celebrate ROBOTIS’ OpenRB-150 compact controller and earn a chance to win some awesome prizes by showcasing your favorite compact DYNAMIXEL platform here on the ROBOTIS Community Forum!

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The Winter 2022 DYNAMIXEL Miniature Machine Mashup has Ended!

First Place:

The HANDi Hand Test Finger - A Platform for Developing Hand Prostheses

The HANDi Hand, or the Humanoid Anthropometric Naturally Dextrous Intelligent Hand is an open source, 3D printed hand prosthesis that the BLINCdev community first started working on in 2014. Previously, the RC servo motors (Hitec HS-35HD) used to drive the hand had become discontinued or difficult to source. A finger testing unit (our entry to the miniatures competition) was developed to evaluate various replacements including the XL330-M288-T and XC330-T288-T Dynamixel actuators. The unit inclu…

Second Place:

Miniature Machine Contest: YGB V0.4 (Yard Guard Bot)

My wife has been working on various robot designs over the past few years, testing various capabilities and configurations. Below find V0.4 of her Yard Guard Bot (name is work in progress). She’s written software to detect pine cones, now she’s working to feed that info to the Arm so it can pickup the pine cone and put it in a pre-designated location. We have a few dozen pine trees in our yard, hence all the pine cones. Here’s a simple BOM she put together for this submission, with pictures …

Third Place:

Miniature Machine Contest: The Pup-bot Advanced!

[PupBot] Don’t know if Robotis will cry foul, but if nothing else I at least want to use this opportunity to ask Robotis to get more serious about their controllers! Their servos are great! Second to none! But their controllers never seem to take advantage of all the great cheap computing power we now have, or at least make them integrate-able. That is why I created the Pup-bot Advanced! Using their Bioloid Comprehensive kit, I designed and 3D printed mounts for a powerful SBC (Beaglebone Bla…

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Enter for your chance to win by posting your robot or robot design as a new post in the Contest Entries topic!

Contest submissions may be in the form of:

• Showcase Videos
• Photos of your robot/platform
• Design Drawings/CAD Models
• Any other way you can share your favorite compact DYNAMIXEL platform with our community!

Be creative - the more likes on your post the better!

The three most liked () top level posts before the deadline will be crowned the winners!

Prizes and Rules below!

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PRIZES:

1. $150 ROBOTIS US store credit
2. $50 ROBOTIS US store credit
3. ROBOTIS Prize Pack

For regulatory reasons, prizes may only be awarded to participants within the North and South American Regions

RULES:

• A ROBOTIS Community Forum account is required for entry.
• The contest is open worldwide, to any eligible participant, but for regulatory reasons, prizes may only be awarded to participants within the North and South American Regions.
• One entry per applicant. Multiple entries from the same ROBOTIS Community Forum account, or accounts which are coordinated or colluding will be disqualified.
• Your entry does not have to be a platform created for this contest, but submissions that were previously entered into other ROBOTIS Community Forum contests are not eligible
• The robotic platform or design must fit within a 12x12x12in (30x30x30cm) volume when in operational condition, and include at least 1 ROBOTIS product.
• Your post must include the robot you are submitting.
• In order to qualify for a prize you must “like” () at least two (2) other contest submissions while the contest is live. You do not have to “like” other entries at the same time as submitting your post, but both likes must be submitted before the conclusion of the contest. If the contest period ends before you have liked any other posts, your entry may be disqualified.

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CONTEST DATES:

BEGIN: October 24th 2022 ~~ END: December 31st 2022

If you have any questions about this promotional contest, or anything else feel free to send me a private message here on this forum, or email me at CS@robotis.com.