aaaaaand. our robot lost. sigh. okay, it got second place. so I'm still happy I guess? after tedious hours of improvising and repairing and optimizing and testing, our perfected robot still wasn't perfect enough to win. hardware failure. power supply failure. and so it lost in the third round. but it was pretty impressive in the first two rounds, scored 7 in the first, 3 in the second. and then it seemed to get older every passing minute @@ it scored 2 in the third round but lost by 5 to 2. scored 1 in the forth and scored none in the final round. gahhhh.
any how, we really did our very best. considering that I even gave up my beauty sleep to stay up late in the nights to perfect the coding. at the last night before the competition, we stayed in uni to perfect the design up to 1am midnight. half way testing out our robot, the power supply in the corridor was cut off. we continue to test the robot in the dark. but then we were asked to leave by the security guards, since we weren't suppose to use the arena past mid night. oh well. a few teams stayed over for the night since the tutorial rooms are open for 24 hours.
on the big day itself, we had to fix several minor problems, including broken wires, and preparing "spare parts" for the robot just in case of an emergency. during the first round of the competition, I almost got a heart attack when the robot ran up the obstacle placed in the arena. as in literally UP. the obstacle had a sharp edge so the robot wasn't able to avoid it. the vehicle went forward, with the obstacle in between the robot mouth and the vehicle drove up the edge. it was almost verticle and it got stuck there for a while. thankfully this managed to activated the base sensor which triggered the robot to reverse. and so our robot gt down from the sharp edge safely with a loud BANG and was able to continue to function. this was one of the most nerve racking moments during the competition round @@
we lost the first place to the robot called "minion" which used a fan to collect and shoot the ball. it was really impressive and their robot worked consistently. we also lost due to bad luck, our robot wasn't able to encounter any balls in the first half of the third round. so, sigh. frustrated. but anyhow, we got 6 marks deducted but still earned a certificate award for second placing!!
our perfected bingo
ours is like the ugliest robot, since we put the least effort to design the outer casing. oh well, at least it works fine. @@ I guess it'll be dead boring if I continue to explain the details of the parts of the robot, so I'll just leave it here.
group photo!! you can compare the ugliness of our robot with the others. it was also one of the smallest. 3 of the robots weren't here though. I especially like the wolverine, which had the most unique outlook design.
proud of our team: pei zhan, who continuously untiringly persistently reminds us to work on our robot. seriously we won't be able to go so far without her. we'll slack and settle for less, no doubt. ahah. and yin wei, who was the main programmer who was so eager to win since the preliminary round. ahahaha seriously I never see him so hardworking before. and agoo. who was always late but gave constructive and helpful comments to improve our robot. ahaha. and yk! who wasn't in our team but helped us lots nevertheless! same goes to wc who helped us in the chassis of the robot. nice fellows they are ^^ so, it's a perfect team I guess. we managed to work happily and achieved so much. thank you! to each and every one of you ^^
so, one unit down!! I have three final papers to sit for in the next few weeks. time to catch up with studying. since, seriously, I had only absorbed 30% for the other units this semester? this happens when we worked too much on our robot. no time to lose! good luck for finals y'all!!
