Malaysia International Robot Competition

On the second day of school, Mrs. Farhana came to me and told about MIRoC and I was like "let's go for it!". So here we were at last going for international robotic event, it's my last robotic competition in school. Malaysia International Robot Competition or MIRoC for short was held at Malaysia Perlis University. Our robot's goal was to follow the line and collect balls along the way. When I knew it was about line following, I got a hard feeling about this. I just hate using light sensors. There's too much distraction - shadows or maybe unstable light intensity. Then the robot gets haywire. I did a prototype before I went to umrah but was destroyed when the robotics club tidy up the room. So, I had to start all over again, in 6 days, a week after I came back from umrah. I even got a whatsapp message from Mrs. Farhana when I was in Mecca! I'm surprised. She was shocked when the most powerful robot kid in school was not in school and the competition was in a week. No worries. By Tuesday, I got a 50/50 working robot. We had no proper track to test so yeah. Wednesday we made our own track, very poor looking track made of crumpled recycled banner and duct tapes. That's our only choice. On Thursday, we're off to Perlis. That morning, I remembered about the NXTcam I bought in US. It's better than light sensor but the programming is complicated and I haven't progammed anything yet. What did Nike said? Just do it. I rushed back home to get that thing and off we go. I spent the night programming and calibrating and tested on our poor track. I can smell a bit of victory when using that NXTcam but still not that good. But on the real track at UniMaP, it works like charm. The competition was in Saturday and Sunday. We successfully beat all the team except SMSAH. Win-lose ratio, 6:8. To wrap everything up, we're the runner up for the grouping but didn't make it to quarter.