Comment Feed for Channel 9 - BoxingBots at South by South West http://ak.channel9.msdn.com/ch9/921d/9792ffed-2a90-465f-97fa-75f3d043921d/SXSWBoxingBots_220.jpg Channel 9 - BoxingBots at South by South West The boys at Coding4Fun really out-did themselves this time. They created Kinect-Driven Pneumatic Boxing Robots and showed them off to the party-goers at last nights opening party for the SXSW Interactive track, host by Frog and Microsoft. Essentially 2 humans each use their own Kinect to control the boxing bots inside the ring. The crowd LOVED this party centerpiece and I must say I want a bot of my very own. You can read more details here but check out the video right now to see these massive robots in action. en Sat, 25 May 2013 15:29:49 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 15:29:49 GMT Rev9 Re: BoxingBots at South by South West best toys ever Smiley

posted by Clint

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671236084667426 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:33:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671236084667426 Clint Re: BoxingBots at South by South West posted by Vahagn

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671320527599262 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:54:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671320527599262 Vahagn Re: BoxingBots at South by South West posted by Deactivated User

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671537906234479 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:56:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671537906234479 Deactivated User Re: BoxingBots at South by South West Wow you're pretty shallow and near sighted.
This is pretty cool. They only had a month and a half to do this from scratch. Give them a year and I bet it'll be totally different.
The idea that we can control hardware via motion, simply awesome.

I see huge potential. Not necessarily boxing, but many other things.

posted by Visitor

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671555593516460 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:25:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671555593516460 Visitor Re: BoxingBots at South by South West posted by Deactivated User

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671643914489192 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:53:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671643914489192 Deactivated User Re: BoxingBots at South by South West
I see how much cooler you think you are than everybody else, but you really just sound like a self-absorbed *.

posted by yourmom

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671909916706306 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:16:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634671909916706306 yourmom Re: BoxingBots at South by South West Cool.

Seems like this violates the Law of Robotics about self preservation though. The kill switch was a wise idea  in case they attempt an overthrow.

posted by dtower

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634672788615193457 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:41:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634672788615193457 dtower Re: BoxingBots at South by South West @dtower: the punching was designed to be fast but not powerful. While I did joke safety third, the motor controllers have a kill switch, we have ref mode, the tanks have pressure relief valves so they can't be over-filled, all the gauges and electronics are in "safe" areas where they can't get hit or driven into.  The bases are basically tanks.  4 hours of people slamming them into one another and they only have a few scratches Smiley

posted by Clint

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634673759946296473 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:39:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634673759946296473 Clint Re: BoxingBots at South by South West @bystander:  Rick did the UX and some kinect stuff.  Brian Peek did the networking stack / kinect stuff. 

You have to remember, the two robots were built in 1 month with 3 guys working on the entire project with other things that had to get done on top of the robots.  Lots of wiring, lots of figuring out stuff on the fly, lots of "how are we going to make this rock solid".

When doing projects like this, we have multiple considerations like cost of parts, durability of parts, can we program said part on the fly, can we get the part in time, how hard is it to hot swap the part, ... 

Remember, we basically had a demolition derby going on.  Everything had to be extremely industrial and rock solid.

posted by Clint

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634673766518901830 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:50:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634673766518901830 Clint Re: BoxingBots at South by South West posted by SilverLaw

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634705050709719876 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:51:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634705050709719876 SilverLaw Re: BoxingBots at South by South West I´ve started to make some interaction with Kinect, possibilities are infinity.
I really liked to see what you have done.
Thanks for sharing.

posted by Chineis

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634723627106492111 Fri, 11 May 2012 19:51:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Boxing-Bots-at-South-by-South-West#c634723627106492111 Chineis