IDC Robocon 2017: Day 2
Day 2 of Robocon started out with a presentation of our ideas to a panel of professors representing the different universities. Thankfully, my team had several ideas for both the land and sea robot....
Day 12 – Competition and Final Thoughts
It’s already competition day! We had an hour and a half before matches started in the morning, and we needed every minute of it. We continued to be hit pretty hard with unexpected electronics...
Day 9 – Laser Cutting and Orbit Robot
In the morning, I did laser cutting for my group for almost an hour. I feel bad for letting other users to wait for their turn to use the laser cutter, but I am...
Day 2 MIT Robocon
Day 2 of Robocon!
Started the day with Fab Lab and Arduino Workshop Training.
Then we visited the MIT museum, which is free for MIT students YAY!! Saw some cool robots and architectural exhibits!
Then we travelled...
Day 10 – Actuator Testing
There are only a couple days left before the competition, and some people appear to be starting to feel the stress of the deadline!
We certainly have a long way to go before the robot...
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...
IDC ROBOCON 2016: Day 12
Seeding contest today! It’s just a contest without an opponent to rank the teams for tomorrow’s actual contest. We had three minutes to complete the tasks.
Our climbing robot got stuck at the second slope,...
IDC ROBOCON 2016: Day 14
Today is the last day of the program. Two weeks flew in the blink of an eye. We were kept busy everyday for the entire two weeks that it did not feel long. I...
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...
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....
