soRA - system obsługi Robotic Areny

Robotic Arena Management Software

Robotic Arena is a yearly event organized by a student’s interest group KoNaR from Wrocław University of Science and Technology. For a few years I had the joy and privilege of helping in nearly all parts of the organization as a member of the interest group.

Most of those years I was working on the management system. Starting out as a developer and taking over the project in next editions.

Almost everything used for the tournament was custom made. It’s a Django-based service that provides:

• CMS,
• volounteer management,
• participant registration,
• jury panels,
• live scoring,
• speed gate APIs.

Over the years the frontend evolved from a simple HTML + Bootstrap, into a Vue application and finally landing on current React frontend, while still retaining much of the original Django backend.

Due to regulations, everything needed to be hosted on the premises of the University, so we had to learn how to properly host things as well.

It was my first large project and it might have been harder than some of my commercial ones. It took a lot of effort, but I’m glad to see that it continues to be a springboard for young developers to dip their toes in a real life application.