Sorry for the lack of posts for the last couple of days. We've been continuing with the steady progress towards Piwars and with 54 days left, we finally started with the hardware of the robot! Our motors and wheels arrived 2 days ago, and they worked as expected. We also modified the wheels a bit … Continue reading Update 4.2.2019 →

Today was another productive day. Yesterday, the ultrasonic sensors on the prototype robot weren't functioning properly. Today, some optimization on the software side and noticing that the sensor was slightly damaged helped us fix the issue so that all the current electronics we have work properly. We also wrote a simple library to make writing … Continue reading Update 31.1.2019 →

Today both hardware and software were worked on. The first thing worked on and mostly completed was a line detection algorithm meant to be used on the Blast Off challenge. The algorithm takes in an image containing a straight line and can find where the line is. Line detection program. The blue area was the … Continue reading Update 30.1.2019 →

While building the final design for the robot, we used a small prototype bot to test our code. Currently, the code consists of a custom library used to drive motors, control a servo, use a camera and receive data from our PS3 controller. Using this, we wrote a script for a "spy robot" that shows … Continue reading Update 29.1.2019 →

This is the first post on our Piwars blog page. We will be posting regular updates of our robot on this page from now. So far we have conceptualized the robot and only building it is left! I hope we can make it in time 🙂