Student Robotics

There is a small general update for you all: The programming of our robot is underway and we are continuing to work diligently on the code. We are convinced that we will manage the Virtual Competition on time. In addition, all passports have now been applied for and the first … Weiterlesen …

This week some of our team members met to advance the construction of our robot. For this purpose, the appropriate plexiglass was shaped into the ideal shape. We put a lot of thought into choosing the color and are therefore even more pleased that our final idea of using red, … Weiterlesen …

We are really happy because after we submitted the vision challenge we found out that we had successfully passed it. Now we can fully concentrate on the virtual competition, the modification of our robot and the organizational preparations for the competition in England. See you soon when we have news … Weiterlesen …

The vision challenge continued! Now you will learn about our preparations regarding the code. To do this, we carried out some calculations and took notes in order to ultimately write the finished code. We tried this out and of course checked it. At the very end we corrected the errors … Weiterlesen …

It was time to prepare for the vision challenge. First we assembled the kit we need for this challenge. This of course includes the camera but also the lipo, the brainboard, the motorboard and the USB hub. Once we had all that done, we dedicated ourselves to building the marker … Weiterlesen …

Now the hot phase begins for us. We first looked at the camera last week. To do this, we printed out the QR codes, cut them out to fit and finally hung them on a straight, smooth wall. To our delight, it works perfectly and without any problems. So we … Weiterlesen …

At our last meeting, we first asked a classmate who owns a 3D printer if he could print two custom-made tires for us. We sent him the appropriate dimensions and a picture. We also thought again about the appropriate mechanism needed to collect the asteroids. The base plate may have … Weiterlesen …

After a short Christmas break we are back. In order to imagine the playing field as realistically as possible, we created additional models of the asteroids with the correct size. We also continued to work on our mechanism to collect the asteroids. To do this, we cut out a wooden … Weiterlesen …

There are news again. We have further developed our strategies in the last days. Of course we will keep this secret ;-). We also created a schedule of what we want to do over the christmas holidays, such as the vision/mechanics challenge. We also want to continue building the robot … Weiterlesen …