weekly status update
The team participating in „Schüler bauen Roboter“ had to learn to program. 🙂 (author: Bastian)
2019/2020
Eurobot – layers of the big robot
After a lot of pressure at school, we continued working on the hardware of the big bot this week. The idea of using a frame of 2020 extrusions, which is composed of several layers, is similar to last year’s. The heavy motors are located in the first layer in order … Weiterlesen …
SAM – reviewing SAM
Last Friday we hosted the chairman of the local association for environmental protection (Bund Naturschutz) in our school. We told him about the creative process involved in building the SAM, from the first drafts and prototypes up until its state as of now. Unfortunately, we could not provide him with … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics – first python experiences
This week our software team wrote their first line of code in python. Unfortunately we discovered new important problems we didn’t notice. Another point is we didn’t upgrade our model – hopefully we will have done it next week. The manufacture of our robot is starting. If everything works as intended, it will be a modular, … Weiterlesen …
weekly status update
This week we built the first parts of the arena for Eurobot. Furthermore the different projects provided the teams with update presentations about their projects. (author: Bastian)
SAM – anemometer upgrade
Recently we have been pondering over how to make SAM a more approachable and practical project. During that process we came up with quite some exciting ideas which shall be revealed shortly, so stay tuned for that! In the meantime, we decided to build in another part, an anemometer to … Weiterlesen …
weekly status update
We split into groups to work on our projects: One group for SAM and the other group for England. Our Student Robotics team discussed its current technical design. It will get a little finish thus it is easier to build. We did some filming for our SAM. It was quite … Weiterlesen …
Schüler bauen Roboter – Kick-Off
This wednesday we finally had our kick-off-meeting at the Technical University of Munich and got some helpful information. The university’s team is kindly sponsoring a starter-kit to build our robot. Let’s get started! 🙂 (author: Raphael)
SAM – in the spotlight
Last week we met twice after our regular classes to record some footage for a short film about the SAM. For filming, we managed to borrow great equipment such as adjustable lights from our school’s art department as well as a TV camera. Thanks for that! Furthermore we “built” or … Weiterlesen …
Student Robotics – the final sketch
This week we updated our robot by adding a safety switch that shuts down the robot in an emergency. Furthermore we tried to find out if the „hidden compartement“ of our robot is big enough to hold the hardware. In addition, our software team tried to learn the programming language … Weiterlesen …