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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)

We have decided to disassemble the bot again to replace some parts in order to fix the problem with the turning moment of the motors. Your chance to get a closer look on some of our parts: In the video below you can see that the wheels are at least … Weiterlesen …

Our robot is able to drive… Almost! The wheels, the motors, the electronics, everything is working (you can see that in the video below), but we still have a problem with actually moving the bot around: The turning moment of the motors is too small for our relatively heavy bot, … Weiterlesen …

We have finished building the structure of the bot and are halfway through installing the electronics! In the photos you can see the structure of the bot (an aluminum chassis with different floors – we were trying to make it as robust as possible) and some of the electronics already … Weiterlesen …

The virtual competition on last week’s Saturday went well for us: With our two first place, a second place and a fourth place in four matches, we can be quite happy with ourselves. With the league points these results and our challenge submissions give us, we are now in eighth … Weiterlesen …

As we are getting ready for the virtual competition, we are putting all our efforts into the code and have made some great improvements. We will be going confidently into the competition and are looking forward to it! (author: Yannick)