NUbots

NUbots- BACK IN ACTION!

2008-04-23T10:08:00.003+10:00

so i googled nubots and found our blog! it has been severly neglected lately so i though i should update it...

so since our last post we ended up coming second in last years robocup "that sucks!" you say, i know!

then michael, the traitor, left us for ut austin and rick moved to ireland :( *sigh*

it was all looking a little gloomy, but then we decided to enter the nao league and join forces with rick! so this year we will be the Newcastle University Maynooth humanoids- "NUManoids"! get it?! Im going to take credit for the awesome name even though it was kenny who first suggested numan but i think he was more thinking of newman from seinfield.

anyway! so me, steve (the hoff), aaron (wongy) and jason (the robot) are back in action! pereparing to kick ass! umm but i better not be too much of a smart ass just yet, we havent even got a robot yet *eek*!

In Breaking News....

2007-05-13T23:40:00.000+10:00

The NUbots have been in the press again:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/robo-pups-ready-for-battle/2007/05/11/1178390515090.html
Though no mention of the king of the robots this time ^^;

It looks like NUbots preparations for the World Cup are in full swing...

NUbot defeat Northern Bites in German Open Semi-Final

2007-04-21T03:08:00.000+10:00

The NUbots held off a hard charging Northern Bites team (shown in picture) to secure a 10-3 victory in the semi-final. The score line doesn't provide a fair indication to the toughness and quality of our opponents who played an extremely good game. They did hand around beers at half time .. cheers mate ;)

Tomorrow we renew our rivalry with the evil German Team!

Welcome back NUbots !

2007-04-21T03:00:00.000+10:00

After a resounding victory at RoboCup 2006, the NUbots plan on continuing their World Domination Tour (as correctly predicted by Naomi in 2006).

Due to popular demand the NUbots return to Germany in April and continue to Atlanta in July.

Stay tuned for more details.

Back by Popular Demand!

2006-04-12T10:55:00.000+10:00

Due to popular damand here is a new post:

So the rabbit asked wise lion "what is your name?" and he replied " Gongo ". Ahh a fine name.

Ok so its been a while since our blog has been updated, sorry to all fans ;) and I guess the biggest news is that we played the AU open the other weekend (that is where my rabbit met Gongo) and as per usual we kicked some ass in the round robins only to be defeated in the final *damnit!*
Let it be known- we will have our revenge on UNSW!!!

And that day shall be next weekend (not this one) when they visit us! Yay!

for more photos visit floz' photos!

Meeting on Thursday

2006-03-07T12:12:00.000+11:00

How could you find 40 guys that would want to kiss this guy ?

We also have another meeting at Thursday at 11am !

NUbot World Domination Tour

2006-03-02T10:16:00.000+11:00

April 7-9 RoboCup Australian Open- Sydney, Australia

June 14-20 RoboCup World Championship- Bremen, Germany!

Following up from our meeting...

It was decided that firstly, we shall win the Australian Open this April, then the World Competition in June. So prepare for ass kicking NUbot action!

Details as to how exactly we will achieve this will be posted as time goes on.

By the beard of Zeus!!!

2006-02-28T10:42:00.000+11:00

We have another meeting on Thursday!!! 11 am!!!

Meeting on Thursday

2006-02-21T14:36:00.000+11:00

So i felt like our blog was being neglected and also I wanted to share this picture with everyone, it somehow fits into our robots theme. I always thought of Dr Smith as a little creepy, but this picture just confirms it. I have no idea why he had to hike his leg up on the robot, what does that mean??!

Anyway I used to have the most awesome keychain thing, it was of Robot B9. When you pressed the head in it would say "warning warning" or "danger Will Robinson, danger" or "that does not compute" how cool is that?!!! Then eventually the battery started to die and the words became dragged out and it was like "daaangerr Wiiilll Robbiiinsonn..." also its plastic legs got all squashed and cracked up, as you can see in the picture they are not made from the most sturdy of plastics, and finally its little claw broke off.

btw meeting thurs 11 am!

Banana Puccho Day

2006-02-16T13:39:00.000+11:00

Today is a momentus day in history; the release of not only banana puccho BUT ALSO choc coated banana puccho in our lab! From this day forth the 16th of Febuary shall be known as Banana Puccho Day.

OK so bannana puccho I can understand but choc coated puccho?? Thats just crazy! Well its its not as crazy as you'd think- it came about because banana puccho was cold and so he put on a chocolate coat!! You can visit www.puccho.jp for more stories of yougurt boy and his freinds!

Please post any banana or choc coated banana reviews here and feel free to nominate your favorite puccho flavor. Personally I think pineapple is my favorite, but I have to say both bananas were awesome.

Thank you to Stephen for his connections and his generosity in sharing such a precious commodity, thank you to yoghurt boy for his new friendhip with banana, and finally a special thanks to Ms Gwen Seffani, who made the spelling "bananas" so much easier for me in this post.

Meeting on 23rd of February

2006-02-16T13:20:00.000+11:00

There will be a meeting at 11am on the 23rd of February in the lab.

Consequently the jelly wrestling has been pushed back to 2pm. Jelly needs to go in the fridge the evening before!!!!

NUGOD FTW

2006-01-25T16:02:00.000+11:00

Work is progressing with the new Debug application NUGOD (Newcastle University General Online Debugger) , however more bugs or "features" are always being found with Microsoft's compiler which is making simple tasks more complex.

The app takes over from the older EOTN program, and offers better modulation of the different parts to allow each member of the NUBOT team to have their own display from the one program.

Currently NUGOD contains the dog code and runs correctly, however without the lookup tables the simulation does not take place. I hope to have the tables implemented in the next day or so.

Road to Germany 2006

2006-01-19T11:11:00.000+11:00

This year the NUbots will be competing in the Four-legged league of RoboCup 2006. This will be the fifth time the NUbots have competed, and we came second in RoboCup 2005 in Osaka. This blog will have some stories about the NUbot development and the road to Germany.

NUbots First Post

2006-01-13T14:04:00.000+11:00

Hello, this is the NUbots (un)official blog! Welcome!