IDC Robocon: Day 12
I fidgeted with my pen nervously as the countdown on my Casio Watch slowly creeped towards the 0:00 mark. No, this was not the final of the IDC Robocon but a different final altogether....
IDC Robocon 2017: Day 4
Today is the fourth day of the IDC Robocon 2017. My group is the Yellow Group: one Japanese student and three Chinese students who are from Tokyo Denki University, Zhejiang University and Tsinghua University respectively....
Day 3 – We finally make things!
I started Wednesday with a healthy breakfast at Economical Rice. Jarrod from Purple Team joined me.
We made good progress today and built some important components. Dhanya worked on configuring the light sensors for the robot....
Day 3 – Rachel Reed
I was a last minute addition to the MIT/USA team and didn’t have a lot of background knowledge of what IDC Robocon was going to be. Coming into it I didn’t have very high...
Day 7 – Rest Day
Sunday was our only full day off out of the two weeks, and it was great to take a break! Many of us used the day as an opportunity to do some exploring at...
IDC Robocon 2017 Day 5 @ ZheJiang University
The was almost a week passed and most of the teams do not have a working robot prototype on hand. This got me quite worries and a little paranoid. Constructing a robot not only...
DAY 11 MIT ROBOCON
The day we were all waiting for, it was time for some competition!
Take a look at the other teams' robots! Don’t they look amazing!
Although there were six tasks given, it was impossible to...
Day 11: T-1 to Finals!
So it’s one day before the finals and it’s time for the testing and we’re making our final adjustments. We’re testing out the code, modifying it and trying it out on the final track....
Day 2 – Presentation Day!
Hi, I’m Masataka from Tokyo Denki University in Japan, and I’m on Team Purple Power! This is almost my first opportunity to write a sentence in English, so please forgive me if there are...
Day 1 – Meet New Friends
This is the first time for me to go abroad. Hence, I am so excited. I am excited not only about the intensive competition, but also meeting new friends.
It’s the first day that we...
