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There were some improvements to the arm due to the exceptional weight of its wooden structure. We will instead be using fence wire for one of the sides. This should greatly improve our efficiency when working with the tokens in the arena, since our bot and its servo motors might … Weiterlesen …

If you know Team MAI, then you know our love for themes at robotic competitions. 🙂 Take a look at a selection of our former costumes… 2014/2015: We were monks with glowing auras. And although there was no collusion, team HRS appeared in a similar theme. 2015/2016: There were some … Weiterlesen …

As we have mentioned earlier, we have modelled some of the components of the student robotics kit. It was a lot of work for us to design those in the first place, so we figured other teams might want to use those, so we have decided to make these models … Weiterlesen …

We are working on building an arm to be able to grab tokens. For the purpose of stability it is made from wood, which makes it also quite heavy, that’s why we’re thinking about designing some of the components to fixate it ourselves. Also, we still need to buy some … Weiterlesen …

After a lot of testing and writing parts we are now able to present our simulator bot doing something he may possibly also do in the virtual competition: He is using a marker as an orientation to then go and grab a gold token from the enemy scoring zone and … Weiterlesen …

For testing purposes, we decided to build a plinth. We tried to make it as stable as possible, but also had to find a solution to be able to transport it: The arms can be fixated with screws and are therefore also easily removable. And of course, even though you … Weiterlesen …

For our 3d model we designed the motors, power boards etc. and while it may not look like it, it was a lot of work to really get all the details right, so that we can now bring it all together. But with only a 3d model we obviously can’t … Weiterlesen …

Since the first challenge’s deadline was two weeks ago (7th of January), this was our main focus for our Christmas holidays. Due to each individual team member having been ill for at least a week or two we had still quite a lot to do. We had made some huge … Weiterlesen …

We’ve made some attempts on some more complex lines of code: our virtual bot can now search and identify a specific marker and then drive in its direction. This will of course be crucial for our final code for simulator competition. In the video you can see the bot searching … Weiterlesen …

We have upgraded our 3d-model and have also had some more thoughts on how we want our bot to look like. We want our robot to be made of two floors with the first floor containing our motors, our motor controllers, etc. and the second floor containing all the rest. … Weiterlesen …