VIDEO: Azure as eggs is eggs
Our man James 'The Hatchett' Matchett came through with new voice code for us. The Google Assistant and Google Cloudspeech APIs which...
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May 8, 20212 min read
One Day Crash Course
Today we met up in Holywood with the intention of creating, recording, and disassembling the DIY Obstacle Course in a single day... and...
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May 8, 20212 min read
Adventures in Holywood
After a long day of filming the obstacle course we decided it was time to take a break and pop out for Subway and coffee, but this...
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May 6, 20212 min read
VIDEO: The Trolley Problem
Trying to come up with the best robot attachment for the obstacle course has been tricky, but we think we've worked it out. Our robot has...
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Apr 27, 20211 min read
Congratulations James! Apprentice of the Year!
Aw bless, our wee James is growing up. Our very own James "The Hatchett" Matchett - long time NI Raspberry Jam volunteer, FLL mentor and...
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Apr 23, 20211 min read
Up The Googly Path - Attempt #1
As you may recall from some of the previous blog posts (Ok Google and Spaghettification), we've been working on a method to use a...
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Apr 23, 20212 min read
Chaos theory
On the day we set out to video some of our challenges, we had a robot that worked pretty well, and all we needed to do was make all the...
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Apr 23, 20211 min read
Ding Dong, the Fish is Fed!
It's two months to the submission deadline, and we've just successfully recorded our first video. The "Feed The Fish" challenge involves...
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Apr 22, 20211 min read
OK Google, Do The Whole Course...
Another Thursday, another Google Meet Up to talk about Google Assistant. We are making progress: We've learned that trying to get Google...
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Apr 18, 20211 min read
James 'The Hatchet' Matchett
We've just called upon an old friend of STEV3 to help us hack the Google Assistant. This is James. He was the lead dog when we entered Pi...
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Apr 14, 20212 min read
OM NOM NOM
With our fish-pellet-flinging catapult at the ready, we already knew hands down we were going to get top points for a perfect autonomous...
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Apr 9, 20211 min read
Cormac joins the Team
Hi, I'm Cormac. I don't always look like this, but when I do... actually I always look like this. I have just officially joined team...
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Apr 5, 20211 min read
VIDEO: Playing with Toys IRL
We were finally able to get our hands on some robot! Due to the coronavirus lockdown, and our team members living so far apart, we have...
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Mar 18, 20211 min read
VIDEO: Tidy The Toys - Successful Run!
Let's go over the rules and points: Three coloured cubes with sides of 50mm will be placed inside your 1500mm x 1500mm arena. CHECK. Your...
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Mar 14, 20212 min read
VIDEO: Fast & Furious: Tokytoybox Drift
For the Tidy the Toys challenge, we've got wheels and a forklift, but we're having trouble staying on target. We've watched some videos...
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Mar 7, 20211 min read
VIDEO: Feeding the Fish!
The STEV3 Self Loading Fish Food Catapult is ready for battle... If you saw the post about our catapult tests you will see that we went...
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Mar 4, 20211 min read
VIDEO: Shooting Fish in a Barrel
The Feed The Fish challenge involves flinging "food" into a "fishbowl" from a distance behind a safety line. The food can be any kind of...
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Feb 19, 20211 min read
VIDEO: Prototype Toy Stacker
My dad and I built a forklift add-on to the base robot. For maximum !! EXTREME !! points in the Tidy the Toys challenge, the three...
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Feb 4, 20212 min read
Spaghettification
During our last online meet, we attempted to figure out the best way to use the Google AIY kit to voice control the robot. As it turned...
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Jan 31, 20211 min read
Tales From The Slack: Points Update!
Dear @channel! I have just reviewed the Pi Wars At Home site for the first time since they updated the points. There is a grand total of...
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