Bentobot
A robot fight tournament you can play from your bed
Problem
Robot fights are fun as hell. They are like the ultimate sport for robotics and engineering nerds.
However, the current options are expensive and time-consuming with:
- Building your own robots
- Paying for event tickets
- Flying to the event
- Hotels, food, etc
- Asking your boss for a week off
The solution
We built 3 robots & 1 application for people to remotely control them.
Robots & application were built in 2 weeks. We ran tournaments on my Youtube channel for 4 weeks.
100+ people played. Lots of fun had.
Current state
The events have ended, check out the streams & the code (yes it’s all open-sourced) here:
- https://bentobot.comfyspace.tech
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGjvcHMSb-c&list=PLxElTDkmyi_OykBGS6k5KyzoKO1o8zwxh
- https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/bentobot
We got featured on the Raspberry Pi Magazine, which was a great memory for me (: