Competitions

IT’S ALIVE! (it’s pretty ugly) … BUT IT’S ALIIIVE!! Over the past few weeks we’ve been busy working on the robot and its hardware. We have done all the wood chopping and all the cable management and are finally (almost) done – Take a look at it: The wiring looks … Weiterlesen …

This week so far, we wrote some more lines of code and nearly finished the hardware setup of the bot. Also our outer presentation/image team started to develop our costumes and robot design. (author: Michael)

In the past week we thought that we had a hardware problem, because of which we could not test our code. Turns out, the problem was that we did not write the code within the IDE, but in an external programm and therefore forgot to export the code via the … Weiterlesen …

Amongst our usual tasks about which we (usually) always keep you up to date, we also worked on something you may or may not remember us for from last year. It is all about the looks. So we have been discussing several ideas for our appearance at the competition. Our … Weiterlesen …

So over the holidays we did some more coding. We have implemented a state machine which we will use to execute our strategy step by step. We also began to write our drive methods and are almost done with turn. (author: Leo)

We wish you a late but happy and healthy new year.Let’s see what 2016 brings to us. (author: Rhea)

As you may have noticed by taking a look at our poster, we are finally done designing our logo. We are currently trying to implement it nicely into our website, but we are not quite sure where to put it. If you have any suggestions, do not fear to let … Weiterlesen …

We are proud to announce we created a poster to present our team to our school. It will be hanging in the hallway in front of our computer rooms and shows everyone what we do and what we managed to create in the last few years. We decided not to … Weiterlesen …

So we’ve been looking around on the pages of the co-competitors and noticed especially Team QMC took on some of our ideas like using the Omniwheels perpendicularly. We really appreciate that the sharing of ideas is working so well. Also I think their suction cups and their turning mechanism seem … Weiterlesen …

We learned from out last years experience (and the year before 🙂 ) and finished our time shedule earlier this year, with lots of reserve and testing time that hopefully won’t be used on finishing our robo. In order to manage all this, we organzied ourselves with a small timetable … Weiterlesen …