Student Robotics

After five difficult matches with some mixed results, we realized that the bot needed some rest. Some members of our team are also exhausted, due to all the funny gestures they make during the match, to get the bot going. We are all enjoing the break and getting ready for … Weiterlesen …

We just realized that we used a broken gearbox on one of our motors for almost every match yesterday. We now replaced it with a new gearbox from one of our spare motors. We are currently on rank seven in the league and have 81 league points. (author: Hennis)

Thats it for today! Having just played our last match, where we got second place. We just experienced how fierce some teams are for the win, when team CAT reset our robot. They quickly realized their mistake in crossing us though and scored a banana for us. Today evening we … Weiterlesen …

Last Match went really well. We did only get 3 points, but we almost secured a coconut and came ever so close to winning 6 points. We recorded everything in FPV, so take a look: (author: Hennis)

After the next two matches we now have 41 points putting us in 9th place. We won the last match against Systemetric, proving once and for all that not even a portalgun can stop us ;-). As we now have put our final design piece on our robot someone might … Weiterlesen …

In the last two matches we improved a whole lot and we finally scored three points in our last match. That means we were tied in the first place together with another team. We currently have 27 points in the league and will continue our way to the top. (author: … Weiterlesen …

In one of the last matches two of the other teams showed that Student Robotics can turn into BattleBots really quick. Our last match was a little success for us as our robot powered up, started to drive, collected a token and almost succeded to bring an A-Token into our … Weiterlesen …

For some odd reason our robot didn’t power up during the second match, so nothing happened. (author: Hennis)

Our first round wasn’t as good as we thought. We weren’t able to get any token. We think, we had problems with vision and we hope we can fix this until our next match. (author: Hennis)

During Tinker-Time we tested our special tactic but it didn’t work out quiet as we wanted it to. We also noticed that the tokens in the arena have sharper edges, which creates high friction and messes up our tactic. (author: Hennis)