Welcome to Season 2025/2026
The 2025/2026 season is starting and brings us many exciting new tasks to work on. We look forward to seeing our friends again at the various competitions. See you soon!
Student Robotics
Student Robotics: First Success
We’ve successfully completed the movement challenge! After running into unforeseen difficulties at the very last minute, we were glad that we prevailed nonetheless. We were surprised to see the robot drive with the accuracy that it did after seeing it completely mess up so many times. I won’t bore you … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics: Fixing the Cicuit (Part 2)
Shortly after making the changes from the last blog post, we tested the hardware by putting code into the Arduino UNO, but for some reason, nothing happened no matter how we changed the code. After a couple of hours of trying, we realized that the circuit didn’t work as intended … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics: Fixing the Circuit (Part 1)
Since the last blog post about our hardware, we realized a small rookie mistake with the wiring: We connected the stepper motors with a servo board, which doesn’t make sense because stepper motors aren’t servos. Thus we needed to change some things up and connect the motors to microstep drivers … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics: „Hello World!“
As most of our team isn’t familiar with coding for robotics yet, we had to start by learning the absolute basics. Working through the Microgames was especially handy, as it gave us a relatively approachable starting point for our programming journey. We also read the docs on the Student Robotics … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics: Precision Crafting
As we needed to replicate at least some parts of the arena to test our strategy accurately, we replicated the so called high rises, which are pedestals fixated to the ground. Cutting out the exact right cardboard size for the boxes was a bigger challenge than expected. In the end, … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics: Approaching the First Challenge
As our first challenge this year, we have chosen the movement challenge. With the deadline rapidly approaching, we’re already working hard on fulfilling the essential requirements. This week, we set up the very first circuit. This will enable the wheels that we attached last week to move. So you can … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics: Upgrading the Design
As mentioned in our previous post, we’ve adjusted the design according to the feedback that we got from our peers. We didn’t account for possible inaccuracies occurring in the robot’s movement in the first design. Thus, we made the opening in the front wider in this second version so that … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics: Laying the Foundation
These wheels attached to this frame lay the groundwork for our whole bot and enable us to tackle the movement challenge! Some work still lies ahead of us till we can accomplish the challenge, but it’s an important first step in the right direction. Adjustments must still be made as … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics: First Concept
After brainstorming a bunch of ideas, we decided on our very first design for this project, which you can also see below. After getting some feedback from our peers, we’ll rework this prototype to be even better than it is right now. But seeing this first version makes us look … Weiterlesen …