Student Robotics

Only 943 tests later we finally got the test subject to slow down before stopping full. We also got it to only walk slowly if it doesn’t want to walk more than 1000000000nm. Also our scientists have finished painting their lab coats……..The only problem is they are STILL NOT WEARING … Weiterlesen …

As the contest is coming closer every day, we are getting near to the critical stage. The testing area is fully set up and we have to start thinking of the real problems like tactics (also, still some finetuning concerning our movement is to be done ? ). In order … Weiterlesen …

Secret informations reveal terrible lab safety conditions According to unofficial sources the scientists in the high risk biomechanical prototype lab do not wear any kind of security clothing. Now some of them show strange mutations. But instead of instantly increasing their safety they are firstly PAINTING their lab coats… They are … Weiterlesen …

Aside from building our testing arena, we also did some coding.Our robot can now turn tokens the right way up, or at least in theory it can. This is due to some hardware changes that caused the robot to not be able to pick up tokens anymore. We will have … Weiterlesen …

The team just finished building our new and improved testing area. Here we will be able to measure, analyze and improve our subjects behavior. Further more our team was also able to test subject MA1B0T16 and equip it with a camera, enabling us to observe it from the first person … Weiterlesen …

Update: Reports from inside the laboratory. Former Top-Secret phantom drawings have been leaked to the public. The following image may not be appropriate for younger viewers. According to an unknown source, the scientists who lost the drawing said something like „..blabla.. robotbadges .. no idea where to put them ..blabla..“. … Weiterlesen …

There has been an incident with subject MA1B0T16. He has been acting strange since his revival. He is still not able to control his right foot correctly but the scientists are working on making him walk strait. Not only that but we also realized that our lab cotes have way … Weiterlesen …

This week we did a little bit of coding. We tried to get our robot to drive in a strait line, but it didn’t work because of a mistake in the ruggeduino code.  After we fixed it, our robot still didn’t want to drive strait forward because one of our … Weiterlesen …

We finally published two Videos on our YouTube channel. The first one is an old one from two years ago. You can watch it here: The second one is from today. Take a look! WE CAN MOVE NOW! WATCH OUT WE ARE COMING! (author: Leo)

We finally collected our code stubs into one file and updated our code on GitHub. We also implemented the first part of our turn token method. (author: Leo)