Happy New Year!
It has been a busy start to our new year with lots of prototyping, design reviews and events in the past few weeks.

Sandy Lum, the mechanical team lead, is currently working on the development of our chipper-kicker for our Robocup 2012 robots. She is a 3rd year Mechatronics student who did a co-op with the team last summer. Below is the 1st prototype of the design which has worked "quite well" so far.

She has enjoyed gaining experince on the team and seeing her fellow mech members thrive in their projects. We look forward to seeing it implemented on this years robots!

Events

- Design in Engineering
Would we like to thank the E-team for putting on this wonderful event. We thoroughly enjoyed sharing our design and project knowledge with the engineering community.
- High School Evening
Lots of eager high schoolers were at this event last Thursday. A big thank you to Bhavani and the team for holding this event. It is always a pleasure to field probing questions by the high schoolers.

We have been very busy in the past few weeks including participating in the Science World Robotics Weekend and taking the Bots to see some dinosaurs. Click READ MORE below to see what else we have been doing.

New Member Feature

Koushik Peri, a first-year UBC Engineering student on the electrical sub-team, is presently working with a team of other members on the design for a solenoid winder for our new flat solenoids. Being a first-year engineering student, he has only basic understanding of circuits and motors, so the members working on the project are currently in the research phase. This involves lots of self-learning and mentorship from the knowledgeable senior electrical team members including our experienced electrical team lead, Matt Lai.
He hopes to prepare himself for 2nd year in, most likely, electrical or computer engineering by getting exposed to concepts so he doesn't, "walk in blind," into ECE. We look forward to seeing the final solenoid winder design, Koushik and fellow members!

Field Set-up and Interested High School Students

Saturday October 22nd, we had a group of students with Engineering Exploration and GEERing Up! take a tour of the EDC and learn about our team and robots. We hope our presentation and demo of xbox-controlled bots spurred the students' interest in UBC Engineering and robotics!
We are still making arrangements for proper lighting above our field, so we can get Vision up and running.

Robocup Junior!