While some of us have just finished an important piece of work for school (and some also had their well-earned holidays…), there has still been some progress on our sustainable development project: We have been thinking a lot about “Quality Education” lately and besides noticing that we ourselves are very lucky in that regard, we’ve … Sustainable Development: Malala Yousafzai – The Story of a Hero weiterlesen
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In our first week we designed a first 3D model, thought about non-final tactics and started to write a parts list. As the microcontroller for the robot, we plan on using a Teensy 4.1. For measuring distances, we prefer laser sensors, for black lines infrared sensors and for the magnetic field of the Odin path … MAI Cup: Senior Team Thinking about Robot Parts weiterlesen
We continued with the preparation of our satellite, revised the parts list and thought about how to best implement our ideas. To do this, we had to think how we set it up and which parts can be installed so that it is not too expensive but still work well. To plan our CanSat, we … CanSat: Parts List and Simplified Communication via GitHub weiterlesen
This week we started to work on the design and the mechanism to collect the balls. Our first idea was that we collect the balls by driving over them and storing them under the robot so we don‘t have any moving parts that would only make it unnecessarily complicated. Furthermore we now know what parts … Progress of the MAI Cup Senior Team „Roter November“ weiterlesen
Unfortunately Team MAI is officially withdrawing from this year’s Student Robotics Competition. 🙁 We are very sad and frustrated about that forced withdrawal as we were really eager to meet all the other teams in the finals once more. We hope to be able to participate in season 2023. Be assured that we are going … Withdrawal from Student Robotics 2022 weiterlesen
Sadly we have to withdraw from the student robotics competition. 🙁 🙁 🙁 The reason for this is that there are ongoing as well as new corona restrictions that our school has to comply with. A few days ago, we received new instructions on how our school has to implement study trips. Currently we do … IMPORTANT UPDATE for Student Robotics Competition weiterlesen
Great news: Maybe you noticed already that some of our teams are preparing for a competition called MAI Cup. We can now proudly announce that we are going live with our own contest to support robot entuthiasts around the world! 😎 Naaaahh... it's not that big. Just a friendship cup with a few friendly teams. … MAI presents you the MAI Cup weiterlesen
In Bavaria, we´ve now got holidays for 1 week, but still, we´ve made some progress that we want to present. We´ve developed a little game about the measures against climate change: We want to show what affects the climate, and what doesn´t. To play the game you ‘d just have to click on for example … A cow´s impact on climate change weiterlesen
This week we worked on our camera system. In the competition we will try to recognize the hexagons with the help of the camera, collect them and sort them correctly. In the picture you can see the 4 different hexagons, between which we have to distinguish. To recognize this, we use the code on the … Eurobot: Working on the Vision System weiterlesen
In our third week we have worked on a basic list for electronic parts. The list is not already finished, so this will keep us busy for the next weeks. We figure out which parts we will need and how many of them. Then we had a look on the internet to find a suitable shop. … MAI Cup: Junior Team Doing the First Steps into Engineering weiterlesen