Student Robotics 2015/2016

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)

As usual, we had our weekly team-meeting on friday where we had some deeper thoughts about how we are actually going to rotate the flags in order to get them in the right position. For that matter, we adapted a system which some of you probably have some experience with: … Weiterlesen …

IT’S ALIVE! (it’s pretty ugly) … BUT IT’S ALIIIVE!! Over the past few weeks we’ve been busy working on the robot and its hardware. We have done all the wood chopping and all the cable management and are finally (almost) done – Take a look at it: The wiring looks … Weiterlesen …

This week so far, we wrote some more lines of code and nearly finished the hardware setup of the bot. Also our outer presentation/image team started to develop our costumes and robot design. (author: Michael)

In the past week we thought that we had a hardware problem, because of which we could not test our code. Turns out, the problem was that we did not write the code within the IDE, but in an external programm and therefore forgot to export the code via the … Weiterlesen …