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University of Strathclyde: Battery Development Team

cheryldocherty

Our battery design has come a long way from last year’s competition, with main advancements relating to BMS data recording and case modularity.The cell model we have chosen to use is the HG2 from LG. It boasts a high continuous discharge current of 2...
- 7 Jun 2019
University of Strathclyde Eco-Vehicle: Powertrain Development Team

cheryldocherty

Our powertrain development team is responsible for creating all electrical aspects of the drive system in our electric prototype vehicle. The team is made up of a series of development sub-teams tackling distinct modules which come together to provid...
- 31 May 2019
Introduction to University of Strathclyde Eco-Vehicle (USEV)

cheryldocherty

Hello! I’m Cheryl, Co-Head of Electronics for the University of Strathclyde Eco-Vehicle (USEV) Team. We are a society whose aim is to design, manufacture, test and race a highly efficient Electric Vehicle to compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon (SEM). T...
- 26 Mar 2019
Tiny Mega Land: The Place Where Drawings Come to Life!

8bitsandabyte

www.youtube.com/watch Project details:https://www.hackster.io/8bitsandabyte/tiny-mega-land-the-place-where-drawings-come-to-life-d87450
- 25 Sep 2018
TLM02e prototype battery pack part II

tlmoto

In the first part of this topic, we showed the process that lead us to the sizing and configuration of our battery pack. In this post, we are going to go through the process of adapting that batterypack to the motorcycle, how the first version of bat...
- 21 Aug 2018
TLM02e prototype battery pack part I

tlmoto

One of the hardest part (at least for us) of building an electric motorcycle is the development of the accumulator and respective container. The sizing of the battery is not the only problem, designing a safe and simple wiring...
- 10 Aug 2018
Introducing Avalon's ROV

khaled63

Testing and developmentThroughout the project we have experimented with a variety of designs and prototypes to arrive at the ideal design for the missions that we have. A good example of this is the actuator that we have designed to balance a platfor...
- 15 Jul 2018
The future of precision agriculture: A low-cost, battery-free, WSN using RFID technology and drones.

sdaskalakis

Would you like to see this IoT proposal developed further? Head over to our University IoT Challenge voting page to help this project get turned into a reality. Modern agriculture applications necessitate cheap, low-maintenance and low-cost wir...
- 20 Jun 2018
IoT-Enabled Hearing Protection Device

yingzhang

Would you like to see this IoT proposal developed further? Head over to our University IoT Challenge voting page to help this project get turned into a reality. 1. Executive SummaryAn IoT-enabled hearing protection solution is proposed, and a n...
- 19 Jun 2018
E.L.L.A. - A Voice-Controlled Lifestyle Assistant for the Long-Term Housebound

alandross

E.ffective L.one L.ifestyle A.ssistant Would you like to see this IoT proposal developed further? Head over to our University IoT Challenge voting page to help this project get turned into a reality. The principle concept of E.L.L.A. is to...
- 18 Jun 2018
PetBud - May Update

__ryanmcclure

So far a few problems with regards to setting up the board have been encountered, these are discussed below: Challenges In order to setup and configure the WaRP 7 board there are an array of procedures involved which can vary in their stages de...
- 11 May 2018
Introduction to TLMoto Racing Team

tlmoto

TLMoto is a team of students from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. Our main goal is to build a fully electric motorcycle to participate the Motostudent International Competition, which happens every two years in the Motorland Aragon Moto...
- 11 May 2018
Avalon ROV: April Updates

khaled63

The team has been hard at work during April with the focus on preparing the robot for testing very soon. We made some great progress on the electrical system and the manipulators. Electrical UpdatesHaving received the PCBs and the electronic com...
- 11 May 2018
Introducing PetBud - A smart, friendly feeder for your pet.

__ryanmcclure

BACKGROUND As part of our embedded system class project at the Ulster University we undertook some market research to see if any new avenue of innovation could be found aside from what is currently available for the smart feeding of ...
- 24 Mar 2018
Introduction to Avalon ROV Team

khaled63

We are a team of multidisciplinary engineering students from the University of Sheffield, participating in the MATE ROV Competition. This is a competition to design and build an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to carry out missions based o...
- 24 Mar 2018
Premier Farnell Technology Challenge: Training Day

jlucas

Last week, representatives from element14 attended one of the initial Training Day events for the Premier Farnell Technology Challenge, organised in collaboration with Leeds Beckett University and Ahead Partnership. Students from sever...
- 17 Oct 2017
Want to run your own robotics summer school? Here's what you need to know.

andybs

We’ve been running our own summer school for many years now, and over the course of these years we’ve learned a lot of details about running them. Robotics summer schools present their own unique challenges which might not be obvious from the start. ...
- 3 Oct 2017
Study Hunt: Library seat availability live monitoring system

rgrammenos

Acknowledgements The following is a mini-project completed by five 3rd year undergraduate students at University College London (UCL) taking a module on the Internet of Things. Credit goes to the following students who kindly agreed to have thei...
- 8 Jun 2017
Hello World!

kierdavis

This is the development blog for Source Bots, a not-for-profit organisation based in Southampton, UK aimed at promoting STEM to under-18s through competitive robotics. Right now we're developing a modular, easy-to-use robotics kit that we can use to ...
- 27 Mar 2017
Thermal Infrared Monitoring for Smart Farming: Agriculture Embracing the IoT

jm.andrade

Thermal Infrared Monitoring for Smart Farming: Agriculture Embracing the IoT J. M. Andrade, Ph.D. Department of Electronics, Computing and Mathematics College of Engineering and Technology – University of Derby (UK) Earth’s popul...
- 14 Feb 2017
Virtual Eye System -- Post #8 -- Code optimisation and Error correction

nikhil22

Hi guys!!!Although the Teacher's Pet Students' Robotics Challenge has concluded, I found that the code mentioned in my previous blog post has some bugs and I have optimised it in this post and have added a video showing the same. The response...
- 8 Nov 2015
Blog #8: Fun Time

Former Member

Obviously no project is complete without having fun, here is the video of our "Raising Hands Dance Move" We should be awarded just for doing this Thanks to all the participants (from front left to back right):Myself, Atul, True, Hyo Jin, Ja...
- 29 Sep 2015
Blog #7: Results and Observations

Former Member

I've not done full analysis of the results, but the current results are quite promising. I was able to detect almost everyone (except when someone blocks his/her face by hand). Raised hands are also detected properly as long as the student doesn&...
- 28 Sep 2015
Blog #6: Hand Detection Module

Former Member

From the previous module, we know where the students are sitting. So we have rough estimate of the hand location of each student. Challenges:1. Students sitting in front of the classroom appear bigger than the students at the back, so the size ...
- 28 Sep 2015
Blog #5: Face Detection

Former Member

Motivation :Next step is to detect the number of students in the class. This step is important to reduce the reduce the domain of looking for raised hands as only the students can raise their hands and if we know the face location of each student it ...
- 28 Sep 2015