Double Cheese was one of the robots that we built for the 2012 Vex Robotics World Championships College Challenge, and played as part of the AURA2 team which placed 11th after qualifications and finished as the quarter-finalists. Double Cheese gets its name from the wedges on the front of its chassis. These allow it to drive through an isolation zone …
A Wild Dragon Appears!
Dragon was one of the robots that we built for the 2012 Vex Robotics World Championships College Challenge, and played as part of the AURA team which placed 4th after qualifications and finished as the finalists. Dragon competed in the isolation zone. Dragon is a unique robot that has a backwards six bar in order to get more height and …
A Wild Woodpecker Appears!
Woodpecker was one of the robots that we built for the 2012 Vex Robotics World Championships College Challenge, and played as part of the AURA team which placed 4th after qualifications and finished as the finalists. Woodpecker was the extension of one of our first interaction robot designs, Carwash. Carwash was designed to be an interaction robot which colour sorted …
A Wild Quetzalcoatlus Appears!
Quetzalcoatlus was one of the robots that we built for the 2012 Vex Robotics World Championships College Challenge, and played as part of the AURA2 team which placed 11th after qualifications and finished as a quarter-finalist. For one of our teams, we wanted our interaction robot to put all the objects from the interaction zone into our isolation zone. Quetzal …
World Champs Results
The Vex Robotics World Championships are over, and we’ve had a pretty hectic weekend (preceded by several months of hectic preparation work) – we will be doing a full write-up of the event later, but for now, here are the results achieved by New Zealand teams at the competition: 720P (aMax) – Semi-Finalist in the Science Division 2900A (Onehunga High …