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HEXLAB-2 Awards · Field honors
Year: 2025 ·
Haunted HEXLAB-2 · Halifax, NS · Oct 25 · Saint Mary’s University · Room L174
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HEXLAB-2 Costume Contest
3 live-judged categories · crowd voting in-room
Recorded Live
We packed RoboBuddy™, HexLink™, glue guns, LEDs, and voice synthesis into
a university lab and said “Go make something haunted.” Halifax delivered.
HEXLAB-1 proved the format. HEXLAB-2 made it loud.
People’s Choice
Crowd energy decides the winner.
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People’s Choice: Ariel & Thomas van Kampen
RoboBuddy™ became a campfire — complete with personality — thanks to this
wife & husband team. A brilliant mix of creativity and engineering that
absolutely stole the room and earned the People’s Choice Award 🏆 at Haunted
HEXLAB-2 in Halifax, NS.
Haunted HEXLAB-2 · Halifax, NS · Oct 25
🔥 Campfire Buddy clip is in LAB FEED · PICK A MOMENT below.
Most Complex Costume
So many servos. So few zip ties.
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Most Complex Costume: Sharon Corbett
A huge congratulations to Sharon Corbett, ★ Founder Core, for earning top
honours for Best and Most Complex Costume at Haunted HEXLAB-2 in Halifax, NS!
Sharon transformed RoboBuddy™ into Einstein — imagination, detail, and
genuine technical craft. Judges and attendees were blown away. This is
exactly the kind of creativity and ingenuity that defines our community.
Haunted HEXLAB-2 · Halifax, NS · Oct 25
💡 Quantum Einstein moment is in LAB FEED · PICK A MOMENT below.
Best Code
Readable. Reusable. Resilient.
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Best Code: Om Anand
Om Anand (@gnome_nom) took home Best Code 🏆 for a witty, technically
brilliant GLaDOS-inspired voice system running on RoboBuddy — proof that code
can have intelligence and attitude. Absolutely legendary work.
Haunted HEXLAB-2 · Halifax, NS · Oct 25
🎤 GLaDOS attitude clip is in LAB FEED · PICK A MOMENT below.
Haunted HEXLAB-2, Halifax, NS — creativity, problem-solving,
joyful chaos. This crew is why the lab feels alive.
👑 Full roll call is in LAB FEED · PICK A MOMENT.
Most Bejewelled Robot (Special Mention)
Rhinestones everywhere. RoboCar got iced out so hard the room cheered.
Sometimes the correct number of gems is “yes.”
Costume Contest — categories, criteria, and style bonuses.
Contest Rules — eligibility, judging, and tie-break logic.
HEXLAB-1 Recap · Saint Mary’s University · Halifax, NS
HEXLAB-1: first contact, first bots
Prototype Night · the origin story
Our heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who participated in our first robotics
workshop HEXLAB-1 at Saint Mary’s University. We got to meet you, hear
why you care about robots, and watch you bring RoboBuddy™ + HEXLINK-1 to life.
You taught us a lot.
Based on feedback from HEXLAB-1, we’re already planning additional workshops
with fresh content, new activities, and new robots. We also plan to
repeat HEXLAB-1 for newcomers (and for anyone who just wants more time
playing with RoboBuddy™).
Email robotng.ca@gmail.com any time with questions, requests, or ideas
for future sessions. This is the beginning. Tell us what to build next.
Saint Mary’s University · first RoboBuddy™ swarm moment