Intro

The Robotics course is intended to provide 6 ECTS for participating in the Robotics Club activities. From September until November of 2017 the main focus is to get two basketball robots and four sumorobots ready for Robotex 2017.

Basically attend lectures, pick any of the suggested tasks/projects, confirm with Lauri and earn your ECTS.

Lectures/meetings

For September four lectures/meetings will take place:

• 7. September 14:00-15:30 room 410 in College building - Introduction of Robotics Club, it's equipment, capabilities and resources. Recap of last year, take a look at running projects.
• 14. September 14:00-15:30 room 410 in College building - Image recognition, OpenCV, Python, video capture/playback
• 21. September 14:00-15:30 room 410 in College building - Microcontrollers, take a look at Arduino, ESP32 and their capabilities
• 28. September 14:00-15:30 room 410 in College building - Powering circuits, work safety, measuring tools, form teams for Robotex 2017.

After September students are expected to with their group on a weekly basis at Robotics Club (room 412) to work on their project, for easier synchronization there shall be pizza on Thursdays 18:00 :)

24-26. November - Qualify at Robotex with your team's robot

Tasks & projects

Basketball robot source and relevant issues: https://github.com/eik-robo/zoidberg/issues

• K-means clustering for image recognition
• Pipeline latency measurement
• Basketball throwing mechanism design and assembly

Sumorobot source and relevant issues: https://github.com/eik-robo/sumoesp

• Conduct workshops for children
• Web interface development
• Make sumo programmable in a new programming language

Learn about gadget, publish howto and conduct workshop

• WiFi Pineapple NANO
• Bash Bunny
• USB Rubber Ducky
• LAN Turtle
• HackRF
• Proxmark 3
• Yubikey

Robotics club PR:

• Maintain homepage, write and publish stories
• Create page at hackerspaces.org
• Find sponsors

Other

• Set up inventory management/tracking

For fun

• Solder Nixie clocks
• Build space probe

Teams

Teh space probe

Members: Mikus, Frank

Hardware missing: none?

Zoidberg & Nibbler vol2

Members: Marek, Madis, Taivo, Fred, Mohanad

Hardware needed: ?

Maze solver

Members: Madis H, Henri, Madis V, Andreas P

Rules: download here

Arena:

• robot max diameter 16cm
• 3mm timing beam @ 3cm from ground
• walls are made of 18cm x 18cm blocks

Hardware needed:

• ESP8266 / Arduino?
• suitable motors (Fauhalber, Maxon, STEPPER)? + wheels
• ultrasonic or IR sensors?
• 3D printed frame? Could also be cut from plastic.

Software problems:

• maze emulation for SW testing
• should it turn at first chance? or go as far as possible, then come back and try the first turn on its way back?
• recursive function for learning