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DEFCONBOTS - An Autonomous Robotics Competition at DEFCON
- epoxyhockey 13y agoThis sounds like fun. Perhaps Gen. Alexander could be invited to MC the event.
- yankoff 13y agoAwesome! That goes really well with the upcoming course on Controlling Mobile Robots I was gonna take https://www.coursera.org/course/conrob https://www.coursera.org/course/conrob
- legogt 13y agoMagnus's Finite Automata course was one of my favorites at GaTech and I'm sure you won't be disappointed with his Coursera offering. Anyone in the Santa Monica/LA area want to take a stab at this competition?
- droopybuns 13y ago2014 is the year Defcon abandons all pretenses that they were not a fed/military recruiting event.
- gamerdonkey 13y agoPlease explain this view. I fail to see how a robotics competition means federal recruiting.
- etanazir 13y agoTargeting fast moving objects is the apex of warfare engagement. (coordination strategy perhaps more transcendent.)
- fryguy 13y agoI've never been on the other side of a conspiracy theory. This is interesting.
- droopybuns 13y agoAchievement unlocked!
- etanazir 13y agoWill al-Qada field a team; or bring any hot chicks in burkas to seduce the winners?
- jotux 13y agoContest organizer here (Fryguy[1] is the other one). When we were in college we competed at defconbots in 2007 and 2008. The contest ended in 2009 but we continued it at RoboGames (the event at RoboGames was called "Robot Shooting Gallery") from 2009 until 2013. We really love robotics and wanted to bring the contest back but wanted it to be more programmer-friendly. We're hoping that a simple reference design and less mechanically-challenging contest will get more CS folks interested and participating. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fryguy https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fryguy
- alvarop 13y agoThanks for organizing! I did it back in DEFCON 14 and had a blast! Where's a good place to discuss/ask questions about the rules? EDIT: Just found https://github.com/Defconbots/2014_Competition_Rules/issues https://github.com/Defconbots/2014_Competition_Rules/issues
- johnmurch 13y ago"at moving and illuminated targets" - anyone know what size they might be?
- PaulSec 13y agoSeems so much fun. What would be the Hackers News's features for this robot ? :)
- Qworg 13y agoWould people who do this professionally be part of the general competition?
- jotux 13y agoThere is no ban on computer vision professionals. I'm sure we'll have at least a few competing.
- bergie3000 13y agoWhere will the contest take place?
- X-Istence 13y agoI'm looking forward to seeing this being submitted as a contest/event :-). It also reminds me I need to update the site!
- etanazir 13y agoShow me your security credentials and I might compete in a secret event; but not sharing my thoughts with every body.
- jotux 13y agoSecret?