Student Robotics

Now the hot phase begins for us. We first looked at the camera last week. To do this, we printed out the QR codes, cut them out to fit and finally hung them on a straight, smooth wall. To our delight, it works perfectly and without any problems. So we … Weiterlesen …

At our last meeting, we first asked a classmate who owns a 3D printer if he could print two custom-made tires for us. We sent him the appropriate dimensions and a picture. We also thought again about the appropriate mechanism needed to collect the asteroids. The base plate may have … Weiterlesen …

After a short Christmas break we are back. In order to imagine the playing field as realistically as possible, we created additional models of the asteroids with the correct size. We also continued to work on our mechanism to collect the asteroids. To do this, we cut out a wooden … Weiterlesen …

There are news again. We have further developed our strategies in the last days. Of course we will keep this secret ;-). We also created a schedule of what we want to do over the christmas holidays, such as the vision/mechanics challenge. We also want to continue building the robot … Weiterlesen …

When our robot could drive we charged the Lipo. We were very relieved that the charger worked. The Lipo charged for an hour and when it was finished we knew it with a beep. Then we tried the robot again and it worked. It drove in a square. At that … Weiterlesen …

A few days ago, finally we were able to get the steppers to work. To do this, we programmed, thanks to one of our classmates, the appropriate code and loaded it onto the Arduino, so that our robot not only flashed, but also drove. This made us very proud, because … Weiterlesen …

We’ve done a lot of work since the last article, so we can now tell you about our latest status: For example, a classmate from the robotics class helped us expand the code via zoom meeting. In addition, we tried out the new stepper motors. Then we expanded the construction … Weiterlesen …

This week we started building our real robot. We drilled holes in 29×29cm wooden panels and thus built a scaffolding. Then we screwed on the steppers. In a next step the omniwheels were attached and covered with duct tape so that they couldn’t turn in all directions. Finally we connected … Weiterlesen …

This week we received important components for our robot, such as the tires, the motors or the steppers. Students who are with us in the robotics club gave them to us. You can see them in the picture. In addition, we talked to other people who already have a lot … Weiterlesen …