Monday, August 11, 2008

Day nr.1 - Getting started

Hello!

We are the team nr. 2. In our team there are 4 participants - Baiba (Riga, Latvia), Ilina (Skopje, Macedonia), Zdenek (Brno, Czech Republic) and Anton (Ekaterinsburg, Russia). Perfect balance between men's logic and women imagination.

At the very beginning there were lesson about introduction in this beautiful world of robotics. As nobody from us studies in this field, it was quit useful before the practical trainings, because our only experience before was Lego cars in childhood and movies of Scientific fantasy. But anyway we are really exited about the possibility to do something new. Lesson was only the basic knowledge so now we will try to make something on our own.

The first task is almost done. While guys where making the first part, girls already made the other 5 . I have to admit that is quite hard, because you have to put all your concentration. All the parts look similar. Every cm is very important (like in life), and changes the thing how it works (yeah). At the moment we think that we made it more or less right, but I think that you can be 100% sure only if it will fulfill the main task in the end. Now it is time for programming, and it will be the girls stuff.

Now we have a new friend, his or her name is Dingo (we do not want to be the sexists). It is not perfect, he goes a bit not straight, and his arms sometimes do not catch the things, but anyway it is our first robot, so we love it ;)

With love,
Baiba, Ilina, Zdenek and Anton
Team nr. 2

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