Robotik-AG des Gymnasiums Markt Indersdorf
This year our task is to build a robot that can race around a (roughly) oval obstacle course as quickly as possible. Said obstacles consist of gravel, a ramp, carpet as well as bathroom tiles. During the kickoff we received an expensive starter kit, including an Arduino Mega and two … Weiterlesen …
Over the last week, we have been working hard on how we can take a soil sample with the CanSat and achieve an upright landing. For this purpose, we have produced several prototypes based on draft ideas and concepts, one of which involves incorporating the operating principle of roly-poly dolls. … Weiterlesen …
The last two weeks we have been working on implementing our hardware in ROS. We also started building our first SIMA and simulating our bot in Gazebo. We coded a hardware translation package to convert the data from the Arduinos to ROS and vice versa. We get ticks from the … Weiterlesen …
This week we received important components for our robot, such as the tires, the motors or the steppers. Students who are with us in the robotics club gave them to us. You can see them in the picture. In addition, we talked to other people who already have a lot … Weiterlesen …
A few days ago a team from Micronova and our principal visited us in our weekly robotics lesson, as we already reported in one of our last articles. We were very pleased that everyone was very interested in our work so far and also gave us the necessary attention. To … Weiterlesen …
This week we have been working on ROS (Robot Operating System) and have been setting up the components and connections. We started by hanging up our RP Lidar A1 to create measuring points around the lidar to map the area. We visualized the values in rvis to find out that … Weiterlesen …
On wednesday, the 8th of November, the kick-off with the other CanSat teams and CanSat’s contact persons took place. All ten teams introduced themselves and their secondary missions with or without a PowerPoint – presentation. Of course, we introduced James as our unofficial fifth team member in our presentation. Each … Weiterlesen …
As announced a few days ago, two ambassadors of MicroNova and our school’s headmaster visited us in our last meeting. They were very excited about the presentations the teams made. On tuesday the 14th of November there’s the kick-off of a competition organized by the Technical University of Munich, also … Weiterlesen …
With the start of the new week, we found out that lipos are available to us. These are not the right ones that we need yet, but we can use them to start, but we will get the right ones soon. We have also built other models of the asteroids … Weiterlesen …
