Pi Wars 2021 – Conference Timetable

The 2021 Pi Wars at Home Conference took place on Saturday, 23rd & Sunday, 24th January 2021.

The Conference was a celebration of all things robotics, Raspberry Pi, electronics and Pi Wars. It brought together veterans and newcomers and was aimed at both competitors and non-competitors. Recordings from the event will be available soon.

Saturday January 23rd

On the main stage:

  • 9:45 – Opening and intro
  • 10:00 – Paul “Dr Footleg” Fretwell – “Help, I’ve been accepted into Pi Wars!”
  • 10:45 – Matt “theraspberrypiguy” Timmons-Brown – “Robotics at University and beyond – a student’s perspective”
  • 11:15 – Tea break
  • 11:30 – Clint Davies-Taylor (Dassault Systemes) – “3D CAD Technology for Life”
  • 12:00 – Amy W – “The Art of Pi Wars (but like the COOL, REBOOTED version!)”
  • 12:30 – Lunch break
  • 13:30 – Blayze Millward – “360-degree Visual SLAM”
  • 14:00 – David Whale – “Building a wireless robot controller with a micro:bit”
  • 14:30 – Tea break
  • 14:45 – Alessandro Bolloni – “ULISSE and the High Performance Computing framework”
  • 15:15 – Leon Anavi – “How to Add an EEPROM with Device Tree Overlay to Your Raspberry Pi HAT”
  • 15:45 – Andrew Suttle – “The £1 motor controller” and Victor Suttle – “Using a £1 motor controller”
  • 16:15 – Close

In the sessions area we have the following 45 minute sessions and panels:

  • 11:30 – Martin O’Hanlon – “BlueDot 2.0. Controlling your robot with Bluetooth?”
  • 12:30 – Makers panel featuring 8 Bits and a Byte, Dan Aldred, Dr Christopher “ZodiusInfuser” Parrott, Matt Timmons-Brown and Dr Footleg
  • 13:30 – Rishan Sharma – “AI and ML with Raspberry Pi” (postponed to Sunday at 15.30)
  • 14:30 – Art panel featuring Amy W, Konichiwakitty and Brian Starkey

Sunday January 24th

On the main stage:

  • 10:00 – Opening and intro
  • 10:15 – Phil Hall – “PiDrogen & Tackling the Pi Wars @ Home Challenges”
  • 10:45 – Neil Stevenson – “Voice Recognition for Robot Control”
  • 11:15 – Tea break
  • 11:30 – David Hannaford – “My best 10 robots in 50 years of robot building”
  • 12:00 – Garry Bulmer – “The UKMARSBOT encoder project”
  • 12:30 – Lunch break
  • 13:30 – Pal Denes and Daniel Sendula – “Software and Simulation”
  • 14:30 – Tea break
  • 14:45 – Ece Tabag, Can Aydin, Elif Kozanoglu and Sedat Yalcin – Pi Wars Turkey: What We Learned
  • 15:15 – Tea break
  • 15:30 – Lightning Talks – and close at approx 4.30pm

In the sessions area we have the following 45 minute sessions and panels:

  • 11:30 – Neil Lambeth – “Displays and menu systems for PiWars Robots”
  • 12:30 – Keegan Neave – “Robot Operating System: How not to do it, and what to do instead!”
  • 13:30 – UKMARSBOT panel featuring David Hannaford, Garry Bulmer and Peter Harrison
  • 14:30 – Paul “Dr Footleg” Fretwell – “Designing your own robotics electronics – Circuit and PCB design for Raspberry Pi Add-ons”
  • 15:30 – Rishan Sharma – “AI and ML with Raspberry Pi” (re-scheduled from Saturday)