AURA’s trip to Worlds in Kentucky

Four members of AURA left New Zealand on April 10 to travel to Kentucky for the Vex U World Champs. The days before the competition were filled with interesting activities including visiting the Kentucky Speedway NASCAR track, eating American food, and testing our robots’ autonomous routines in our hotel room. The start of the competition gave us a chance to …

AURA’s 2015 Vex U reveal video

This video shows the robots we used at the 2015 Vex U world champs in Kentucky. Music credit: Macklemore, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, and especially Robonauts team 118.

How to do a “Good Turn”?

I was pretty humbled today, when I was contacted with a question. I wrote quite a long answer, so I thought I’d share a little of what I’ve learnt over the past 7 years of Vex programming with you all. How do you do a ‘good’ turn? Well, this is basically the only question when it comes to programming robots. …