A couple of weeks ago, the lab that we were working in got flooded, with several ceiling tiles falling on the ground from the rain. We had to quickly salvage all of our equipment as quickly as possible. As a result, we had to make some adjustments to the robots, so now they look a little bit different. Here are …
2011 Worlds Reveal
Yo! So here are our robots for the World Championships, Bravo and Zulu, in their finished and completed form. Bask in their glory! And even better yet, no quiz this time! [photoxhibit=7]
New Zealand Nationals
After a pretty tiring weekend, the New Zealand Nationals are over! A lot of effort was put in by a lot of people to get everything running and going, with 45 high school teams in attendance from all across New Zealand. The competition was fierce, as each team played 13 matches over the two days in qualification rounds. At the …
Strategy/Design Session
After our efforts at the mini-scrimmage at Massey on the weekend, we decided to have a proper design/strategy session to figure out what we’re going to do with our two robots. After a three hour discussion session, we decided to rebuild Bravo completely, and we might rebuild Zulu as well. Below are some photos of us and our facilities here …
Bravo and Zulu update
We have a college practice session at Massey tomorrow, so we’ve been working hard since summer school exams finished on Wednesday to get both robots ready for driving. Here are some photos of us working and of the robots, and a video of us testing macros on the new controllers. [photoxhibit=5]
2nd Kristin Invitational Scrimmage
Kristin School hosted their 2nd invitational scrimmage for the Round-Up season yesterday, after the Pinehurst scrimmage was cancelled due to clashes with the Lower North Island Regionals in Palmerston North. While many teams declined the invitations, we had six robots competing from Lynfield Robotics, Lakebots (Westlake Girls), and K-Force (Kristin School). The scrimmage was run by AURA (Auckland University Robotics …
Testbot
We’re currently waiting for some pretty essential Delrin Bearings (we can’t really build without them), so we made a small testbot for driver practice (especially with holonomic drive) and to see how fast the robot would be without an arm. Here’s a photo, and two videos!
Computer Aided Design
When we have our design sessions, we brainstorm different ideas and discuss as a group in what direction we should move. But sometimes it’s a bit difficult to visualise some of our ideas. To do that we use Computer Aided Design (CAD) to digitally assemble all of our parts before we do it for real. The software that we are …
Meeting Minutes Archive
We don’t like having meetings just for the sake of having meetings, so our meetings are not regular – only when they are actually needed. Most of the time, decisions are made outside of meetings, on one of our many collaboration platforms or in person. 15/11/2011 – Executive Meeting – Download 18/10/2011 – Annual General Meeting (AGM) – Download 28/08/2011 …
Rotary Science Forum
Over th last week, the Rotary Science Forum, involving hundreds of year 12 and 13 students from around the country, have been visiting various universities around Auckland to get a taste of what university is like and where research is going in the fields of Science and Technology. AURA has been on hand to help out at the Robotics Research …