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 …
Close-up: Bravo v1.0
Interested in seeing what our robots look up close up? Here are some of the mechanisms and systems that we’ve designed for our Bravo robot to make it all work! [photoxhibit=3]
Team Update
We adopted a new team structure, which means that we have two sub-teams (Bravo and Zulu) working on one robot each, along with a support team (Sierra) on the side. This does not mean that the two teams are exclusive – they will be working together to produce two complementary robots that will win! The exec also met and elected Chris (as …
End of January Update
As you can probably see from our photos, we’ve started building. In fact, we finished our first prototype in the space of a week, and have a fully functional robot that has already seen some public action at the New Zealand Rotary Science Forum. We are very grateful for the support of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at …
Build Session Photos
Our team hard at work! This is during our first week of build, after we got our parts in mid-January. [photoxhibit=2]