Competitions

We finally assembled our main robot for eurobot competition. First tests …. sound promising! 😉

We are setting up our testing area. Towers, home automation panel, ultrasonic beacons… You may also sneak a peek of our robot. 😉

Just a short update for today: Our automation panel is going to be built this weekend. Hopefully our builders know how to use our conceptual design. 🙂

Our first approach to collect the balls was a tube-shaped object. The balls would be accelerated by a hair-dryer and…. Yes, we noticed it. The tube was too big for the contest, the hair-dryer was a stupid idea. And it didn’t work at all. 🙁 But at least we tried. … Weiterlesen …

We made several test runs with a self-made beacon system. The system is based on ultrasound and radio frequency. It would involve 3 towers for trilateration and a receiver on top of our robot. First test results seem to be very promising.