You might have also noticed that the appearance of our bot altered a little bit. That is because the originally forward facing webcam was replaced with a GoPro while said webcam is now mounted at the back. This allows for more efficient measurement and increased agility inside of the arena.

We have now had our first two matches of the day and coding until 5 in the morning holds some advantages, apparently. Our driving and orientation is great, only precision is still a limiting factor. This should be easily fixed however.

Good morning people!After finally recieving our well deserved brittish breakfast this morning, we arrived at the racecourse (a little late but not too devastating) and are almost immediately faced with our first match. In this sense, we wish good luck and a fun time to all fellow SR-teams!

Midnight-coding time!We have been working all evening on everything ranging from code to costumes, and are eventually even making progress as well! In a more serious approach, we think we did not actually do to bad in yesterdays matches and are even better prepared for today.

The virus spreads out! Several sources have confirmed and documented sightings of team BRN’s robot beeing quarantined.

The first day is almost over and we are already planning what to rework this evening at our hotel.

As our next match is starting in more then 30 minutes, we would like to use this brief intermission to make a shout-out to our competitors at HRS who decided to also go with the ‚mad scientist‘ theme. Good choice of clothing! 😉

After an unexpected collision in the last match, we are trying to get back on our feet. Our coders are approaching the next round with a different method, let’s see if this does the trick. Also, our webadmin (me) was still not able to upload pictures via WordPress due to … Weiterlesen …

Those of you actively watching the competition might have noticed that we did not quite reach the level of improvement we have been hoping for.. Well the coders just figured out that there was a problem with the export of the IDE. As we have fixed this issue now, expect … Weiterlesen …

Success! Well.. Kinda..We just had our first actual match and although we did not exactly go out as the clear winners, we were in good shape. So now we can work on our code to manover more precisely and hopefully win the next round.