Hello again,

This weekend we took part in the delightful Hackathon focused on 'Robotics in Education' organised by the Imperial College Advanced Hackspace. We met more than our fair share of interesting people, and even got some work done on the project on the side ;) As part of the Hackathon we were introduced to some new team mates to help us for the 2 week period, and especially the final hack frenzy that happened this weekend. So say hello to Christian, (Tom and Myself), Kenny and Nick! Depending on their schedules we hope that we can continue to work together.

Christian enthusiastically oversaw the team effort to focus ideas and help us appeal to teachers, kids and technicians alike. So thanks to him we have more streamlined ideas, nice graphics and a fantastic presentation to use in future. Kenny worked on a number of things including investigating a block programming interface, and a web connected interface, he also happens to be a ROS connoisseur. Nick provided us some grounding in what children would be interested in and what is tenable from a teachers stand point, he works as a Software engineer and an after school STEM ambassador, which is a pretty useful set of skills for this project. Nick also helped us prototype a sanitised Python interface for the 'activity' part of the software, such that we are more able to fit in with the UK curriculum in this area. Tom and I continued on the ROS integration and robot firmware. A shot of us being studious; free food and coffee, and an amazing venue!

Some modifications to the firmware unleashed the beastly speed of the litte robots, now we can proudly say that power sliding is a potential issue we will have to deal with. Here is a video, the spinning is in real time, the movement forward is in slo-mo.

There is a small update for anyone who is still listening. A fully integrated demo comming soon I hope.