Team SpacePRIDE is currently registered in the NASA Sample Return Rover Challenge. This competition will play a key role for future missions for navigation, object recognition, mapping the surroundings, and much more. We look forward to this challenge, and are on our way to creating a rover that will hopefully take us the distance. If you would like to check out our progress in more detail, or contact us about helping out, please do so by hovering over the 'Contact Us' tab on the left.

Sample Return Robot Challenge / June 15-18

NASA Centennial Challenge

30-day Required Information Teams- The Critical Deadlines page has been updated to includes details of what is required at the “30-day” mark. All items listed are due by 21-May at 12PM EST. Understand that the video and proposal information requested is to serve two main purposes: - To review your compliance with rule and safety regulations - To [...] Posted on 9 May 2012 | 2:16 pm Updates & Info Teams- I know everyone is moving along and working hard, so we are trying to minimize the interruptions while keeping you up-to-date. New forum was up Friday and should be working. Please report any problems and if there are new sections that are desired just let me know. Next week we hope to update information [...] Posted on 23 April 2012 | 5:33 pm For more updates, check out the NASA Sample Return Rover Challenge site by clicking here.

		Chris Williamson Chris has been working with robotics for over 10 years. He has competed in Robot Wars, BattleBots, and various national and local robot competitions. He now helps to lead several robotics panels at Dragon*Con. Through this, he is able to introduce robotics of many types to those who are interested. His most current personal project is called the RaveRover. Over the past 3 years, Chris has mentored several FIRST teams, and he is currently working with a rookie FIRST team. He has found this work to be very fulfilling. Chris is a machinist by trade. His current job gives him easy access to materials and machinery with which he can design and create custom parts for all of his robots. He is a hard worker and a loyal employee and a fierce competitor.
		Robert Moore Robert has also been involved in robotics for over 10 years. He currently owns Ares Design Company where he does electronics design and development for major companies. He has competed in BattleBots and many other small events around the country. Rob is a valuable member on this team with a huge background in electronics development, programming, power distribution, and much more!

No update for a while as we've been super busy writing more and more code, developing our Surveyor Rovers, and much more! We have two functional Surveyor Rovers that we are able to rapid prototype the vision system based on. All of our rovers will be running the same hardware, so that once we have developed everything, it will be easy to deploy on multiple rovers. Our collection assembly is also in it's final stages and should be getting added to the Collection Rover soon! We apologize for not making more updates to the site, but compared to what we've been doing, it's hard to get on here to update! We appreciate all the support from everyone, and will try to do better updating!
Updated: 04/09/2012 - Chris

The last couple of weeks have been spent out doors with the vision system, trying to fight the sun and shade for vision recognition. Our drive train is complete and is currently driving around.
Updated: 02/09/2012 - Chris

Over the weekend we managed to get a prototype vison system up and running, and are able to object match different samples in both sunlight and shade. Video system is coming along nicely! We've also been driving around a couple of small rover prototypes to nail down object avoidance and detection.
Updated: 01/15/2012 - Chris

We currently have several different chassis prototypes and are testing out a couple of different vision systems. We have created a prototype for the grabbing mechanism we will be using, and we are well on our way to making leaps and bounds toward a final version of the rover.
Updated: 01/05/2012 - Chris

SpacePRIDE is completely funded out of pocket by our two members. Without the support from our partners, this challenge would be much more difficult.

Thanks to the help from our partners, we're able to reach our goal faster and more efficiently.
Please be sure to check out what they do by clicking the links to their websites below.








AiXiZ Service & International, LLC
Laser support for object detection

For more information about Team SpacePRIDE, feel free to contact: Chris Williamson necrolyte17 @ gmail . com We look forward to hearing from you and helping with any information we can give you.