Thursday, August 26, 2010

This few days as usual preparing competition. Technical side had finished preparing, just hope won't screwed up on that day. Presentation side was still have lots of thing to be done which we don't feel like doing at all. Our lecturer-in charge wanting us to do presentation in a different way after he had attended a conference for the past few days, which just using drawings to present our ideas. (mostly with stickmans, triangles, circle, square, rectangle.....)

He was trying to throw what he had gain from the conference to us by telling his story and showing the video for 1 hr+. Trying to make a complicated idea into simple idea using visual. We have been bombarded by too many complicated or bizarre ideas which we always think too much even though the task is so simple. I have to agree with that. Even the simple 5Ws and 1 Hs (Who What When Where Which How) we can't immediate think out of it on a particular theme.

Although people can make complicated thing into simpler, but keeping things simple can be complicated. Just like solving a math trigo equation, by proving the equation can be quite hard but the result is just freaking few numbers.

But after our lunch break and trying to draw something on the lab's whiteboard for like 1 hour. Our team decided do technical stuff again and did something stupid by putting cameras on NXT to take video when doing the runs.

I am going to talk about robotics stuff and lots of negative remarks on some stuff. just to warn those readers who sure get bored when reading it.

When me and desmond were on our way back home, why do we have to do research presentation at most of the competition which is !robotics! competition. I do have to emphasize the word robotics.

Since past till now, I still freaking don't understand why robotics competition have to research about global warming, climate changes, biodiversity etc etc. Does it really related to robotics. If is yes definitely related to industrial robots when we are out to work and having project with environment agencies to tackle environment problems.

IN fact, the robot that these few competition i have been participated does not even help the environment at all. We are just given a particular mission, build a robot, program a robot expect to get as many points as possible to win awards and get experience from failures and other competitors FULL STOP. Thats what robotics competition all about.

Okay but these 2 particular competition (those who know me well should know what are the competition name which i dun wish to mention as i am sick of mentioning). In order to win the championship award, have to do the bloody research presentation.

Teams that have won the championship award usually have solid presentations, good team work bla bla bla. But there are teams which i dun really think they should get that award in the past. When i see their robot and their score, they are just not here for robotic competition at all. Just getting as many awards as possible in non-technical side which many teams at past few years are trying to do that. Robot scoring zeroes yet getting tons of soft skill awards. Den the organizer in the first place should not name it as a robotic competition, might as well name it a project based competition instead.

Also, the surprise mission came out by the organizer to determine who will quality to represent Singapore which i felt was one bad decision made by them. Teams who did badly during the preliminary round but eventually won at surprise mission at the finals and get to represent Singapore to compete in WRO (World Robotic Olympiad) Yeah they do have the skill to manage surprise mission but what's the point? WRO's mission was based on preliminary mission. That's why Singapore team always bring back nothing after going competitions other than SP who won silver at 2 years back.

I do hope the organiser will try to keep surprise mission as the same base field as prelimary mission as near as possible. Not totally change the entire field by swapping field with other division. WRO's surprise mission was based on prelim field too. Why not just bloody follow WRO.

One more, WTF WHY STILL LIMIT US THOSE SPECIFIC PARTS WE ARE USING. Cant we just any lego parts which WRO allowed? For example wheels, we are only supposed to use one type of wheel. Wheras other countries competition they can use what ever wheels they have as long as is lego parts.

Hope this year wun be screwed up as it really my last year of participating.

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