Yesterday morning, one of the ethernet wires in our recently soldered tether snapped, which meant the Electrical Team needed to re-splice the cable. The rest of us had it a little easier. We had no food items whatsoever, so it was time to go grocery shopping. We drove to Target and stood there all googly-eyed like […]
We were all due to get to the airport at 4:30 am. Maybe Suzana and I would have made in on time if we didn’t get dropped off at the wrong gate (thanks Mom and Dad!). Eventually, the two of us met up with the rest of the team and we made it past domestic […]
Auri, our robot, is shipped and we are ready to go. While we wait, read a little about our last week before competition. It all started when we said: We have five days to till competition; let us book 18 hours of pool time. To say the least, it was a roller coaster ride full […]
James Hryniw is a fourth-year software engineering student at the University of Alberta and the current Project Lead of ARVP. James’s interest in robotics started during seventh grade, when he first learned how to program robots to complete a series of tasks as part of the FIRST Lego League (FLL) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) […]
Robosub 2018 was an amazing experience. After attending four Robosub competitions, I can safely say that this was one of the most amazing years for the team. Before I get into more details, I should tell you a little bit about the competition. Starting Tuesday morning, the teams have until Thursday to qualify for the […]
By Jon Machinski The road to semifinals was not as easy as we had hoped. We did start off day 2 right, I woke up at 5:45 am and got to the daily draw a little late, but still got us a 12 noon start time. This was alright since we could use the setup […]
By Susana Trac Monday was the day the Mechanical team arrived at competition, which conveniently coincided with the day our shipping crate finally showed up at the hotel. The first thing I did when I arrived in San Diego was provided false information. Classic. Since the arrival time of my flight was half an hour […]
By Juan Rojas San Diego here we come! Today most of our RoboSub 2018 team made their way to San Diego where the 21st annual RoboSub competition is set to take place. After countless hours of work it has all come down to this. My journey to the airport was a balancing act between trying […]
RoboSub 2018 is quickly approaching! From Monday, July 29th to Sunday, August 5th the team is San Diego-bound for the 21st annual RoboSub competition for autonomous underwater vehicles. This is a culmination of a year's worth of hard work by the entire ARVP team. Here are some of the things that each technical team is […]
The alarm that is Jon blared loud throughout the rooms, waking all of us up. From under my pillow, I peaked at the clock. In red block numbers it showed 6:30. Wow, that's early. But I guess we have our static judging today at 8:50, so we have to be prepared! For breakfast, it was […]
"Get up everyone!" Jon bawls at those sleeping sacks of exhausted engineers like a military corporal who caught his soldier's sleeping on duty. "Oh god, not again" I think to myself. The first pool test is scheduled for 7:30 so its no surprise that everyone was essentially sleep walking as we piled into the […]
It's 1:00 in the morning, the epoxy has dried, and the robot is ready to go in the pool and get tested. "Glug glug", the sound that makes us immediately freeze to our spots as water starts leaking inside Auri like a faucet. Suddenly, Brayden and Mike jumped to action, pulled Auri out of the […]
