On Wednesday, we competed at the Wessex Region FLL tournament at the HP Labs in Bristol. Soon after our arrival, we tested the robot a little bit on one of the Practice Mats. The robot programs required very little modification throughout the day, demonstrating the ability of our robot to work on different mats. After the "opening ceremony," we returned to our Pit area to prepare for our presentation. We think our presentation went very, and we also think we did well in answering the judges' questions. Soon after the other two teams' presentations, we had our first run on the table, scoring 375 points.
As part of sharing our solution, the details of our 2015 Project are now available to view here. We hope that it is interesting and inspiring to you. Matthew
Team Leader Today was our last session before the Regionals. We spent the morning running through the presentation and robot design award judging and answering questions from our mock "judges", i.e., the coaches. The afternoon was spent practicing the robot runs and finishing our props for the research presentation. The Regionals are on Wednesday, so we will tell you how we did soon.
Samuel M-B and Peter D Team Members Today, we spent most of the morning discussing core values and robot design, as well as a few robot runs. The boards and props for our presentation were prepared by Peter D. After lunch we focused on the presentation, and we had a professional engineer come to hear about our solution. The robot seems to be fairly reliable, and we are getting better at our robot runs. The competition is on Wednesday, so only one more session on Monday.
Peter D and Joseph Team Members Earlier this year, in October, our dream of upgrading to Lego Mindstorms EV3 equipment was realised by the generous offer of the James Dyson Foundation to buy two EV3 sets for us. We received the Lego on October 19th, and began using our upgraded robots at our meeting on October 22nd. As we had been using the EV3 programming software from the start of the season, the transition was much smoother, only requiring some small changes to the robots to fit the new EV3 parts and some changes to the programming due to the different behaviour of the upgraded robots. We have noticed a definite improvement in accuracy, and the robots now run a lot smoother. The much greater internal storage of the EV3 enables us to easily store multiple programs, even multiple versions of programs, without any problems. As our regional competition draws upon us, we hope that the EV3 will hugely benefit our performance on the table. We are extremely grateful to the James Dyson Foundation for helping us to obtain EV3 equipment. Matthew
Team Leader In the morning, we started by thinking about the presentation. We worked out our positions for the presentation, and practiced saying our lines. We did several full runs through the presentation, which resulted in a few changes and amendments to script. In the afternoon, Peter H, Matthew, John and Sam worked on finishing Mission 2, while Peter D made the needed changes to the script, and Samuel MB and Joseph worked on the key points of our robot design presentation.
Joseph and Samuel M-B Team Members Last Thursday, we began by discussing our project. We have mostly finished our research, and our attention has now turned to our presentation. Our script is now almost finished, and we will soon start giving the team members their parts to start learning.
On the robot, we are making good progress. Mission 1 has been finished and appears to be almost 100% accurate. Mission 2 still requires some work, which should be accomplished soon, and Mission 3 is pretty much finished apart from some possible accuracy improvements. So, on the whole, things are going quite well, though it seems that we still got to do some hard work to finally finish in time for the competition on the 25th. Matthew Team Leader |
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