Student Robotics

This week our parts finally arrived from England. Now we’re speeding up to build our bot. We’re excited about testing our manly finished code. (author: Rhea)

As we are still waiting for some parts from overseas to be shipped, we cannot provide you with visual updates on our bot.However, our coders are already working hard in advance and currently, we have more code then ever before at this point and time.

We would like to dedicate this short update to all the nice people, be it our competitiors or the blueshirts, who complimented us on our accomplishments. We recieved many positive comments on our website, feedback on our Youtube-channel and Github, the blueshirts were quite interested in our technical achievements. Best … Weiterlesen …

So that’s it for this year..Sadly we were kicked out unlucky but still with our heads held high. Turning tokens worked pretty well at last, so we can be proud of our technical approach. We would like to thank all of our teammembers for their effords, especially our hardware- and … Weiterlesen …

Our first knockout is starting right now – people getting sweaty…The good thing however is that we can not get kicked out because there is only one competitor.

In the last match: SUCCESS!!Our code seems to be finally working as intended. We managed to score a point savely by rotating a token rightly which got us pretty confident right now. Of course, we will still be improving the code, but now we have a stable baseline to work … Weiterlesen …

You might have also noticed that the appearance of our bot altered a little bit. That is because the originally forward facing webcam was replaced with a GoPro while said webcam is now mounted at the back. This allows for more efficient measurement and increased agility inside of the arena.

We have now had our first two matches of the day and coding until 5 in the morning holds some advantages, apparently. Our driving and orientation is great, only precision is still a limiting factor. This should be easily fixed however.