There were no successful entrants to this contest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39949966
I myself was not able to complete the challenge in two attempts.
I record my attempts here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RoboInnovateChallenge/comments/1bwzpkg/prealpha_challenge_1_bring_fruit_to_mouth/kyi4cr7/
And a video walkthrough is available here: (pending)
The $10 prize pool will be rolled over into Challenge 2, which will be slightly more complicated.
* A demonstration of my attempts to complete the challenge is available here: (YouTube livestream) https://youtube.com/live/IDF7zN0NGgA
* The ChatGPT transcript I used to generate the code is available here: https://youtube.com/live/H93LiEFo8Uo
* a copy of the transcript is available in various formats on my website: (https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/apr2024/chatgpt-7-April-rob... (zip file with various formats).
* The code snippets I saved are directly downloadable here: https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/apr2024/7-April-2024-robot-...