Last Saturday we APE.Robotics participated in the Science Fair in Kruševac. We brought the robots with us and decided to show them to high-school students as well as some smaller folks 🙂 As you’ll see bellow, it looks like in about fifteen years, we’ll have lots of folks doing robotics 🙂

And yesterday, that is, a week after the Science Fair in Kruševac, we visited Ćurpija. Not many know, but over there, there’s a group of folks gathered around a project called Biblioteka++. We shared with them what we did this year with the competition, how we organized and tried to motivate them a bit. They themselves are programming Lego Mindstorm robots and are making very exciting things. Be sure to check out their website as you’ll find over there very interesting things regarding both robots and programming in general!

Dana 25.04.2015. napokon se odigrava dogadjaj oko koga se ceo naš rad okreće – 13. nacionalno Eurobot takmičenje! Zato vas pozivamo da pomenutog dana prošetate do bioskopske sale SPENS-a u Novom Sadu i prisustvujete okršaju robota iz cele Srbije!

Satnica:
10:00h – Kvalifikacije
13:00h – Polufinalni mečevi

Ulaz slobodan.

Vidimo se! 😉

Time is running out as the competition is only 25 days away. Last time, we’ve left you with only a teaser of the mechanism drawings and since then we’ve been working hard on integrating separate components together as well as designing some new stuff. Today we can finally show you a fruit of our work – in the video bellow, you can see our robot earning his first points! While the competition is approaching fast, we’ll be working on improving the current systems as well as integrating the rest of the mechanisms so our robot can handle other game elements as well! We’ll try to keep you posted with the progress so be sure to swing by now and then 🙂

Again, a large thanks to all of our friends for their great trust and support!

We’re very excited to let you know that Milestone 1 is finally done!
In the video bellow you can see our little guy following a square trajectory and returning to its starting pose. This demonstrates complete software and hardware pipeline functionality as well as the precision of odometric system.

As we finally have a solid ground we can start building up. In the following period be sure to stop by and check on our status with mechanisms development!

Once again, to all of you who support us and dedicate your time and resources a large thank you! This wouldn’t be possible without your help.

Just like people, robots have brains too. What differs our brains from theirs is that ours are composed of networks of neurons while robots’ are usually made of networks of transistors. Some robots have BeagleBone Black development platform acting as their brain, and now, thanks to 012LAB, our robots also have it!

012LAB was kind enough to donate us a BeagleBone Black development platform. It’s a board featuring Cortex-A8 microprocessor and can be useful for all sorts of things. We use it as a high-level controller utilizing AI and Game Theory algorithms to instruct other, low-level controllers to turn motors and similar stuff.

012LAB is a team of experts and electronics geeks who strive to popularize this interesting science. They are a part of 011LAB company which designs and develops innovative electronics products and high-tech systems. They’re also a certified SparkFun Electronics distributor so be sure to check them out for some interesting DIY and open-source hardware products!

Once again, thanks 012LAB!