Student Robotics

When we met as a team on Thursday, we talked in detail about our tactics and strategy. We also thought about the problem with the egg and came to a conclusion. Then we built a first model of the spaceship and also first models of the asteroids to make the … Weiterlesen …

Last weekend we have watched the informative kickstart, which gave us a lot of good tips. After that, each of our team dealt individually very intensively with the rules of the competition and the rules of the game. Then we compared and discussed our results so that everyone understood them. … Weiterlesen …

There is an update from us on the current status. We thought about the division of work and came up with the following result: Anna and Anna ( 😉 ) will deal with the code, Lena and Verena with the construction of our robot and Sara will document every step … Weiterlesen …

We were very happy when the box with all materials and components was handed over to us. We immediately checked the attached delivery list, labeled all the components and found out that no part was missing. Fortunately, we can start working on our robot right after the kick-off on 21st … Weiterlesen …

We are Anna, Lena, Verena, Anna and Sara, a group of girls at the age of sixteen and seventeen from the team MAI. This is the robotics team of the Gymnasium Markt Indersdorf from Germany. Each team member brings their own strengths to the development of our robot, so we … Weiterlesen …

What a stunning competition! We expected it to be good, but the event exceeded our expectations! The atmosphere was incredible and the matches were thrilling all the way to the finals. We learned a lot from the other teams by participation – and got third place on top of that. … Weiterlesen …

As we will be leaving for England on Thursday morning, we are making our final tests! We have faced some problems with both the hardware and the code, but we are confident that everything will be fixed until our departure. Our main focus for our tests is of course our … Weiterlesen …

At the moment we are mainly executing bot tests and developing the related software, including the movement patterns within the arena, the enhanced orientation and the vision logic. Unfortunately, we can’t share much about the strategic portion of the code. However, we can proudly report that the bot drives quite … Weiterlesen …

We actually fixed the problem and can confirm that our bot is driving (in every direction, if needed): Now we will be fully concentrating on testing, testing, and testing! (This blog post should have been online over a week ago. 🙂 ) (author: Yannick)