MAI Cup

As seen in the videos we are currently testing the robot in different situations and improving the code accordingly. We think we could run into some problems with the infrared sensors, but we will find a solution for that. We still must implement the hall sensors for the magnet detection … Weiterlesen …

In this week the color sensor arrived and we already started testing it. We now know that this sensor is compatible with our set of parts and it really is working well. Now we just have to install it in order to use it as a detector of the final … Weiterlesen …

In this week our new color sensor arrived. At first we planned that we’d be only using it to detect the target zone, but because we already have a problem with our infrared-sensors, we thought we could also use it for the main line-following-code. We also tested this sensor and … Weiterlesen …

As seen in the video we are now able to test drive our robot. The bot’s electronics is mostly finished so we don’t have to worry about that anymore. The plan for the next week will be to be able to drive trough the maze without touching the walls. We … Weiterlesen …

At friday before this week we put our bot to a real-life-test. At first we had problems with the power source and the hall sensor but those weren’t the big problems we had at this day. We noticed problems everywhere: Like our bot suddenly stopping to work. Yes, we had … Weiterlesen …

In the past few weeks we have changed from the laser tof sensors to ultrasonic sensors since we couldn’t get those to work properly. We furthermore encountered some trouble with one gearbox that turns unreliably. We are also looking for new hall sensors for the magnet because ours don‘t work. … Weiterlesen …

Now for the last two weeks we all had holidays, but also lots to do because of our deadline today. So, one of our main advances was our new case of the bot. We now have 5 extra centimeters to house our parts and cables which we really needed. Now … Weiterlesen …

We held a tech dayfor the MAI Cup competition. All teams can prepare for the finals now.

This week we measured the power the bot needs all-in-all. Sadly, this doesn’t even give us any kind of information because the motors take more power, for example, in the moment they start. Also we didn’t find any information about our motor types so we can’t look up how much … Weiterlesen …

This week we again tried to connect the port expander, but it didn’t work as expected. We’ll try solving this problem next week. But we successfully connected our 9V battery to the DC-DC, so we can now use one battery instead of two. This also allows us to easily connect … Weiterlesen …