Soccer

  • Competition Day 3 July 9, 2011

    Played 3 games, 2 of which were against strong teams. We won the other one (and didn't lose the last match as badly as we feared we might).

  • Competition Day 2 July 8, 2011

    Played 3, won two! and lost one badly. And our new robots are now both dead.

  • Competition Day 1 July 7, 2011

    We play 3 matches against 2 different teams. We win one of them! And some more of our motors die.

  • Hotel hassles July 2, 2011

    Found out last night that the hotel we had originally booked in was over-full due to an administrative error, so we were going to be switched from the original 4* hotel to a 5* hotel with better transportation links to the venue. So I rearranged the ai...

  • Progressing well... June 30, 2011

    One robot completed today. Hardware finished; some programming still required. It goes significantly faster than last year's Lego robots, and it can see the ball and move towards it. Now the code needs tweaking to integrate the compass sensor readin...