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AVC 2012!

It's AVC Day at SparkFun! Watch the events unfold, LIVE!

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Update: That's it, folks! Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out for the event, both contestants and spectators alike. Also a huge thanks to the fine people who followed along online. We hope everyone had a good time, I know we all did!

See you next year!


It's AVC Day! Welcome once again to the SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition - the event that pits machine against machine in a race around the SparkFun World Headquarters in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. The event starts around 9am MDT and will run until 5:30pm or so.

This year we've beefed up our camera presence and are going to be live streaming the event on ustream, which is embedded here for your viewing pleasure:

Streaming Live by Ustream

We'll have some additional folks hanging around our IRC channel (#sparkfun on FreeNode). Be sure to say hi to SFE_Pearce, who is actually sitting at the emcee's table - give him a shout!

So once again, welcome one and all to the Fourth Annual SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition!


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  • Joel_Q / about 12 years ago / 6

    Does the audio sound choppy to anyone else?

    • I think Ustream reduces the quality until it can stream indefinitely without buffering.... which sucks for those of us on slower networks, but hey, it was still great to watch.

    • chartle / about 12 years ago / 1

      Now I have no sound except for the commercials.

    • chartle / about 12 years ago / 1

      Yea I hit refresh and much better now

    • Alex / about 12 years ago / 1

      Yeah, the audio is completely broken.

      [edit] Oh, I clicked play again and now it's fine. Yay!

  • I might move to boulder just to go to this every year, Boulder looks nice anyway.

  • BBB / about 12 years ago / 3

    Yeah everything is very choppy, except for the ads. I guess I'll wait for the recap video

  • Rambo / about 12 years ago / 2

    The funniest moment was when the audio was chopped up as Robert said "Sm-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oth!"...

  • Gravis / about 12 years ago / 2

    so... anyone else sporting an AVC sunburn? :)

    • Had I been thinking, I would have put one of the Sparkfun flame stickers on my shoulder, so i'd have a cool Sparkfun Tantoo. Oh well, next year!

    • bob.cook / about 12 years ago / 1

      Oh yeah, not a terrible burn but definitely red like a SparkFun shirt. Seriously needed the sunblock.

  • j.tilghman / about 12 years ago / 1

    Anyway to see the AVC that was streamed ? As I didn't see it when it was live. :(

  • Calif / about 12 years ago / 1

    So you had to answer 5000 capchas to get a working stream.

  • Best day EVAR!

  • chartle / about 12 years ago / 1

    Is this more exciting in person?

    Its like the BattleBots type event I went to years ago. 15 to 20 minutes of nothing and then 2 minutes of robots beating the crap out of each other.

  • AdamB / about 12 years ago / 1

    So sad I couldn't be there this year. Will be interesting to do the 'remote viewing' experience at least.

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