From hobby to pro: NE-Five and the Road to PiWars
About
Four years ago Keegan Neave entered PiWars, a robotics competition centered around the Raspberry Pi, with the desire to build a two foot tall tribute to Johnny Five. Within a year he'd quit his day-job to start a robotics company.
PiWars 2020 had the "Disaster Zone" theme and was cancelled due to the pandemic, so its cancellation was at least thematically apt. PiWars 2024 will be the first in-person event since and will have happened a week before this webinar takes place using the unused challenges from 2020. After four years and a half years of work, the robot he initially hoped to build in six months, is complete.
Mistakes were made, assumptions challenged, and lessons learned the hard (and occasionally expensive) way. We'll cover the robot’s capabilities, including its computer vision system, ROS implementation, and two 7dof arms, we’ll see how well it performed at PiWars 2024, and just how valuable and broad a set of skills you’ll develop by building a robot from scratch
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
25 Apr 2024
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Organisers
- Robotics and Mechatronics TN
Registration information
Speakers
Keegan Neave
Robotics Engineer and Creative Technologist - Neave Engineering
Keegan Neave is a Robotics Engineer and Creative Technologist, developing his own robot and helping others solve unique problems by developing custom parts and prototype devices. Graduating with a degree in Computer Science and with a knack for problem solving, due in no small part to taking his toys apart as a kid, he started in a support role before moving through software engineering to robotics. He has worked on satellite ground stations, developed a system to track and visualise every sea-going vessel around the world to end illegal fishing, and more recently built a robot to retrieve a lost spanner.
Reasons to attend
CPD