{"id":12854,"date":"2015-07-01T12:24:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T11:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12854"},"modified":"2015-07-01T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T12:03:11","slug":"raspberry-pi-robot-competition-pi-wars-opens-up-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12854","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi robot competition Pi Wars opens up registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/piwars.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Logo-v2-RGB-sm.jpg?resize=560%2C207\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The organisers of <a href=\"http:\/\/piwars.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pi Wars<\/a> (aka Tim and I), the challenge-based robotics competition based in Cambridge, UK, have just announced that registration is now open for this year&#8217;s event. There are two application forms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/piwars.org\/2015-competition\/entry-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">The main competition<\/a> &#8211; for those who want to attempt the challenges.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/piwars.org\/2015-competition\/show-and-tell-application\/\" target=\"_blank\">Show and Tell<\/a> &#8211; for those who want to exhibit a robot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information about the competition is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/piwars.org\" target=\"_blank\">the Pi Wars website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the highlights of last year&#8217;s competition:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PQy0DZzQJIY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organisers of Pi Wars (aka Tim and I), the challenge-based robotics competition based in Cambridge, UK, have just announced that registration is now open for this year&#8217;s event. There are two application forms: The main competition &#8211; for those&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12854\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,19,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-events","category-robotics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raspberry Pi robot competition Pi Wars opens up registration - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12854\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raspberry Pi robot competition Pi Wars opens up registration - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The organisers of Pi Wars (aka Tim and I), the challenge-based robotics competition based in Cambridge, UK, have just announced that registration is now open for this year&#8217;s event. 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