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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Other => Topic started by: Juju on September 16, 2011, 09:52:52 pm

Title: Robotics competition
Post by: Juju on September 16, 2011, 09:52:52 pm
So my college is holding a robotics competition called Ironbot (http://ironbot.org/). Students in computer science, electric and mechanic have to team up to build the best robot who can do 3 tasks the best, such as obstacle courses and stuff like that. Also it stands well on a résumé.

Registrations are next Wednesday and I'll sign up, of course :)
Title: Re: Robotics competition
Post by: flyingfisch on September 16, 2011, 09:55:08 pm
Cool! I wish I could get a home work assignment like that! LOL (im only in high school)
Title: Re: Robotics competition
Post by: LincolnB on September 16, 2011, 10:05:17 pm
Dang...

/me is green with envy
Title: Re: Robotics competition
Post by: Yeong on September 16, 2011, 10:39:13 pm
I once told principal about the idea of holding calc programming contest (Seriously)
But there's no reply...:(
Title: Re: Robotics competition
Post by: Juju on September 22, 2011, 11:44:51 am
So yeah, it's more a robotics club, but still. We have tasks to do, we have to make a robot that is remote controlled (the catch here is that we don't have to physically see the vehicule, so we have to use cameras), can follow lines (a classic in robotic competitions) and can lift charges.

My idea for the remote control is to use Wi-Fi and the Android platform (with all the accelerometers).
Title: Re: Robotics competition
Post by: sqrt(Time) on September 22, 2011, 07:06:15 pm
Have you heard of the FIRST competition for high schoolers? My school has done decently, historically... and in two years I'll be making a robot. ^_^ (I'll be doing the programming, p > 0.95)
Title: Re: Robotics competition
Post by: fb39ca4 on September 22, 2011, 07:58:20 pm
My school's team (1899) is also doing the FIRSt, and Vex competitions. Me and two others are the only new members with programming experience >1 year out of the 40 or so freshmen who joined so we'll be doing programming :), but we also get to work on building at first as there's nothing to program until the robot is built.
Title: Re: Robotics competition
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 19, 2011, 03:49:27 pm
Good luck Juju, I hope you win. :D
Title: Re: Robotics competition
Post by: Juju on October 20, 2011, 07:30:09 pm
Thanks. Also I bought an Arduino Uno tonight for use with the robot, omg it's so small and cute~
Title: Re: Robotics competition
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on October 20, 2011, 08:37:43 pm
Nice to hear. I wonder if you had a bunch of projects planned with it?