Is this the first thing that came to your mind when you read the heading?
If yes, you'll probably be disappointed. This was our robot ( actually, it is better described as a truck or a battering ram) :
The Robosoccer event is organised by the Technology Robotix Society. It was the second fresher's event i participated in and our team stood second in a competition of almost 64 teams. ( Yes you heard it right, that ugly thing up there stood second !!).
The matches were held over the weekend and our bot had to be ready by Friday evening to get us registered. We started work on the bot on Thursday night after dinner, less than 24 hours before the deadline. Making the bot was the easy part, we just had to attach motors and tires to the frame. Making the circuit for the controller was the headache.
It was the first time we were soldering, and while we understood the circuit and how it was supposed to work, soldering things in place wasn't easy. And the circuit refused to work properly, even after countless adjustments and alterations. Finally we gave up on it the next evening, after working on it in turns for more than 10 hours!! This is the mess we created in 10 hours :
Deadlines however are meant to be extended, and we had time till Saturday evening 6:00 P.M. We made a new complete circuit, with all new stuff (extra expenditure), in less than half the time we spent on the old one. Everything was ready by noon on Saturday, when one of the four relays decided to stop working. We were in a complete mess now, without that relay, our bot could move forward, but not back, and turn left but not right. Somehow we managed to get the controller right with help from some friends ( Kshitij, Sandeep and Amlendu .. Thank You guys. We really appreciate your help. Couldn't have won without you).
Finally, match time. Our strategy was to hit and smash and push the opponents out of our way. Here's a sample in which we almost pushed the other bot out of the arena. ( This was a semifinal match ).
Unluckily we couldn't win the final, our opponent was as strong as us, so pushing would often lead to a stalemate. Anyway, we are happy to have come second. It was a fun (and seriously tiring) experience, we learned lots of stuff, hands-on experience. And it's nice when after all your hard work you win something.
Thanks to my teammates Sumeet ( He did all the controlling and the designing of the bot) and Aditya ( he worked on the wiring and the circuit, and also was present at the matches, and also controlled the bot a bit).
Actual robo-soccer picture by everyone's idle from berlin, germany (DSCF4250s Uploaded by Mewtu) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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If yes, you'll probably be disappointed. This was our robot ( actually, it is better described as a truck or a battering ram) :
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The Robosoccer event is organised by the Technology Robotix Society. It was the second fresher's event i participated in and our team stood second in a competition of almost 64 teams. ( Yes you heard it right, that ugly thing up there stood second !!).
The matches were held over the weekend and our bot had to be ready by Friday evening to get us registered. We started work on the bot on Thursday night after dinner, less than 24 hours before the deadline. Making the bot was the easy part, we just had to attach motors and tires to the frame. Making the circuit for the controller was the headache.
It was the first time we were soldering, and while we understood the circuit and how it was supposed to work, soldering things in place wasn't easy. And the circuit refused to work properly, even after countless adjustments and alterations. Finally we gave up on it the next evening, after working on it in turns for more than 10 hours!! This is the mess we created in 10 hours :
Deadlines however are meant to be extended, and we had time till Saturday evening 6:00 P.M. We made a new complete circuit, with all new stuff (extra expenditure), in less than half the time we spent on the old one. Everything was ready by noon on Saturday, when one of the four relays decided to stop working. We were in a complete mess now, without that relay, our bot could move forward, but not back, and turn left but not right. Somehow we managed to get the controller right with help from some friends ( Kshitij, Sandeep and Amlendu .. Thank You guys. We really appreciate your help. Couldn't have won without you).
Finally, match time. Our strategy was to hit and smash and push the opponents out of our way. Here's a sample in which we almost pushed the other bot out of the arena. ( This was a semifinal match ).
Unluckily we couldn't win the final, our opponent was as strong as us, so pushing would often lead to a stalemate. Anyway, we are happy to have come second. It was a fun (and seriously tiring) experience, we learned lots of stuff, hands-on experience. And it's nice when after all your hard work you win something.
Thanks to my teammates Sumeet ( He did all the controlling and the designing of the bot) and Aditya ( he worked on the wiring and the circuit, and also was present at the matches, and also controlled the bot a bit).
Actual robo-soccer picture by everyone's idle from berlin, germany (DSCF4250s Uploaded by Mewtu) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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