Just in time for the 2012 VEX Robotics World Championships, Nathan has created a script which uses PHP to automatically scan profile pages on VEXForums, and render it onto a background to produce quick, easy nametags for everyone! http://60.234.155.120/nametag.php It should accept pretty much any method you use to stick your member ID in, whether you put the whole link …
Java: CAD
It’s a CAD-ed version of Java! Java was one of the robots that we built for the Robot World Cup in October 2011, and a lot of teams were interested in the new lift mechanism and how it worked – so we took our time and used Autodesk Inventor to produce a CAD version of the robot too. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_IEI5jon-ynNzFjNzg1MjgtZTliYi00MmY1LTk5MDktYTM5OGI1YTcyM2Vh/edit?pli=1 It’s …
NZ Nationals Final Day!
Today was the 3rd and final day of the 2012 New Zealand VEX Robotics National Championship, and the Kiwi teams definitely raised the bar! Teams battled hard in the remaining qualification rounds during the morning session, with 24 highly competitive robots moving through to the elimination rounds. The final was eventually played between the 1st and 3rd ranked alliances. The …
NZ Nationals have started!
The 2012 New Zealand VEX Robotics National Championship has officially begun! A total of 50 teams from all around New Zealand have travelled to the Telstra Clear Pacific Events Centre in Auckland to compete in the 4th Nationals competition. The day started with the opening ceremony where AURA was presented with the Autodesk Inventor Digital Prototyping Challenge Award. Our Chairperson, …
Autodesk Inventor Digital Prototyping Challenge WINNERS!
It was announced yesterday that we had won the Autodesk Inventor Digital Prototyping Challenge! Essentially it’s CAD competition to design a robot using VEX parts – you can see our entry at http://forum.robotevents.com/design/entry/detail/2821. Thanks very much to Nick Mabey, who did 99% of the work for the entry and is our humanoid genius! Our website was also a finalist in …