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 …
VEXForum Nametag Generator
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 …
UoA Engineering Orientation
This week marked Freshers Week – the week for new first year students at the University of Auckland to find their way around the University and get vital information about their degrees. Part of it included information about clubs, and the Engineering Faculty hosted a Clubs and Societies Fair in the Engineering Building. With only a week to go until …