{"id":19192,"date":"2018-10-10T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19192"},"modified":"2018-10-10T14:28:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T13:28:41","slug":"formula-pi-2018-the-finals-of-this-raspberry-pi-powered-autonomous-robot-competition-are-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19192","title":{"rendered":"Formula Pi 2018 &#8211; the finals of this Raspberry Pi-powered autonomous robot competition are tonight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/formula_pi.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19193\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/formula_pi.jpg?resize=560%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/formula_pi.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/formula_pi.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/formula_pi.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/formula_pi.jpg?resize=560%2C315&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/formula_pi.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/formula_pi.jpg?resize=160%2C90&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s edition of the brilliant autonomous robot competition, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formulapi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Formula Pi<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from our friends over at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/piborg.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi Borg<\/a>, comes to a thrilling conclusion tonight (Wednesday, 10th October 2018) at 18.30 GMT. With an international field of roboteers, it&#8217;s sure to be exciting to watch. The following teams are in the &#8216;A&#8217; Final (1st to 5th place):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lambda.p.racing<\/li>\n<li>Chitty Chitty Pi Pi<\/li>\n<li>Team Yoshi<\/li>\n<li>Whacky Racer<\/li>\n<li>Pi Hard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and the following teams are in the &#8216;B&#8217; Final (6th to 10th place):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pico HulkenBorg<\/li>\n<li>Makerspace Randers<\/li>\n<li>Team Limilo<\/li>\n<li>lambda.q.racing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iqaudio.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IQaudIO<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Formula Pi is currently using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piborg.org\/robots\/monsterborg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MonsterBorg robot from Pi Borg<\/a>. Teams work on their code and then upload that code to Pi Borg to be installed on a standard robot. The races are entirely autonomous and the robots react to the changing &#8216;start lights&#8217; to trigger them off on their runs. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formulapi.com\/summer-2018-final-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more about the teams and the competition here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the live stream of the finals below, which is also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jnGeZmM-66I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here on YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Formula Pi Summer 2018 Grand Finals\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnGeZmM-66I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s edition of the brilliant autonomous robot competition, Formula Pi\u00a0from our friends over at\u00a0Pi Borg, comes to a thrilling conclusion tonight (Wednesday, 10th October 2018) at 18.30 GMT. 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