Robotik-AG des Gymnasiums Markt Indersdorf
In the last week we managed to get a camera to work with our raspberry pi, that will detect ArUco markers in the future. This currently doesn’t work like we want, but it already detects aruco markers in the camera stream. We plan to use this feature with the cans, … Weiterlesen …
We finally handed our tower to the “Hochschule München”! It was transported in a makeshift cardboard box so that it would not only be protected from potential damages but also curious stares. When we carried it openly through our school, we had to endure a lot of people intensely staring, … Weiterlesen …
Over the last few weeks we spent our time building SIMAs. We now have a larger SIMA, which we are currently using to test how we lift the superstar onto the stage, and a smaller SIMA, which we use for general testing. We have also already tested the speed of … Weiterlesen …
This week we attached a lock to the robot’s case. We also sawed out a hole for the emergency stop switch on the wooden case and then attached the emergency stop switch. We checked whether the robot was able to fulfil its tasks. This included the ability to drive over … Weiterlesen …
The hardest part of building the tensegrity tower was finding a starting point and understanding the pattern of the structure of the 3D model we used as a reference. The strings kept shifting around at first because some weren’t attached as strongly as the others. It was annoying to tighten … Weiterlesen …
We finally started building our tower by beginning with the Chinese Tower part that is supposed to go on top. By gluing toothpicks or skewers together, we formed many hexagons, which, as we know from last year’s project, are especially sturdy. You can see these in the picture below. We … Weiterlesen …
First we fixed the Arduino to the base. Then we built our first chassis out of cardboard. Our current chassis is made of wood. We wired everything up. Next week we will test the robot to see if it works. (author: Alexander)
After countless hours of consideration, discussion, and research, we’ve composed a final plan for our tower. We decided to follow the idea mentioned in our previous blog post of merging design elements of the Chinese Tower from the English Garden in Munich with a Tensegrity structure. For the Tensegrity part, … Weiterlesen …
After at least somewhat understanding how Tensegrity works, we wondered how we could plan a completely original tower design. At first, we looked into the math that revolves around this principle and quickly realized that it was far from the relatively simple math that we were taught in school so … Weiterlesen …
This week we have continued to work on our SIMAs. We have now created a complete 3D model of the SIMA. Once we had designed it, we started to build the upper part of the SIMA. The chassis and the buttons of our test SIMA are completely finished, we will … Weiterlesen …