Day 5 – A Musical Detour
It’s finally Friday! After five days of intense prototyping, we’ve almost finished a robot. We did some final modifications and tested it on the track and it works pretty well. The electronics part is...
Day 4 – Final Design Ideas!
Today, I started helping out with Solidworks. Due to my lack of skills in Solidworks, I had some difficulty with coming up with the models for cutting. Each of us had our own ideas...
WEEK 10 – Data Experience
Hi everyone!
We are from the Data Experience theme and have been working on our different prototypes after having spent the first 7 weeks on understanding how to effectively convey data through visualizations.
“Data Experience” could...
Day 4 – ROBOCON Progress and Singapore Impression
Today, we are making great progress on the manufacturing and programming. Based on the two days’ designing work, we now have completed the basic framework and the storage (the structure that stores the balls)...
Day 4 – Things Slowly Come Together
It’s getting close to the end of the first week and our team has certainly come a long way in this short amount of time. Our robot design is certainly improving and we’re settling...
Fixing Up The First Prototype!
We’ve really learnt a lot these past few weeks from the mechanics of the arms to arduino, wiring and motor/camera control.
And it works!
IN RETROSPECT: What We Can Learn From Hu Shu Special School
It has been a month since our last day at HSSS. It has provided ample time for retrospection and thus, this blog post was made.
Albeit a misrepresentation of all kids, it is heartening to...
Day 3 – New Field, New Designs!
After presenting our ideas and progress to the professors and mentors yesterday, the purple team was ready for the first full work day!
We continued to build on our 2 robots scoring strategy, and began...
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...
