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September 20, 2003 RoboRama.03b Results
Held at The Science Place, Fair Park, Dallas, TX
Today's marathon 4-hour RoboRama was perhaps the largest in DPRG history. We had 47 entries, 37 robots, and at
least 3 visitors from Austin. Many, many thanks to the prize donors, the volunteers, and our hosts at The
Science Place who make it all possible and fun.
Special thanks go out to the DPRG volunteers, who make it happen:
- Master of Ceremonies: Kipton Morovec
- Judges: John Caldwell, Rick Bickle, and Bill Boyer. Extra-special thanks to Ralph Tenny, whose generous financial contribution to the DPRG resulted in the purchase of 4 digital stop-watches.
- Sign-in: Frank Elia
- Scorekeeper: Teresa Trotman
- Scorekeeper's Helper: Scott Rivers
- Videographer: Cindy Rivers
- Award certificates printed and supplied by: Earl W. Bollinger (The elder)
- Forms printed and supplied by: R. Steven Rainwater
- Course set-up, transport, and take-down: John Drummond, Glenn Pipe, Jeff Koenig, Bill James, and others
President, DPRG
View this RoboRama in the Photo Gallery, or get the video from Gold Leopard Productions.
| Quick Trip | |||||
| Place | Builder | Robot | Score | Prize | |
| 1st | Earl W. Bollinger | Mini Cooper | 240 | RC40 Robotic Resource Kit with SDK, dontated by Compubotics | |
| 2nd | David P. Anderson | Legobot | 215 | $20 gift certificate, dontated by Tanner Electronics | |
| 3rd | Ron Grant | Skipper | 211 | RS-232 development PCB, designed and donated by Bill Boyer | |
| Line Following | |||||
| 1st | David Anderson | SR04 | 215 | Basic Stamp carrier board, dontated by Solutions Cubed, Inc. | |
| 2nd | John Drummond | Liner | 211 | $30 gift certificate, dontated by Tanner Electronics | |
| 3rd | Martin Meier | Tiny Tank | 206 | A pair of Pittman gear motors, dontated by Tom Gralewicz | |
| T-Time | |||||
| 1st | Travis Trotman | R2 | 271 | MotorMind C controller & a Basic Stamp carrier board, dontated by Solutions Cubed, Inc. | |
| 2nd | Ron Grant | Skipper | 261 | $40 gift certificate, dontated by Tanner Electronics | |
| 3rd | David P. Anderson | n-Bot | 248 | Custom optical encoder disks, designed and donated by Rick Bickle | |
| Can Can | |||||
| 1st | David P. Anderson | SR04 | 507 | Pic-an-LCD serial LCD controller, dontated by Dale Wheat | |
| 2nd | Earl M. Bollinger | Growbot 2 | 265 | NMIH-754410 Dual H-Bridge module, dontated by New Micros, Inc | |
| 3rd | Sheila Doyle | 6-Pack | 208 | Atmel Butterfly development board, dontated by Dale Wheat | |
| Judges' Awards | |||||
| Award | Builder | Robot | |||
| DaVinci Award | Ron Grant | Skipper | |||
| Best Engineered | David P. Anderson | n-bot | |||
| My Robot Fried | The Earls | & their infinite number of robots | |||
For more complete results, download the Judges' Scoring Spreadsheet, Excel format