Two days workshop on robotics in UIU,an awesome experience!!!

It is a very nice feelings when you have something very new n special which you actually want to have since a long ago. The workshop on Robotics was a that kind of experience for me that I can never forget. The workshop was held in our university DLD lab & it was a 2 days long workshop.
The workshop was launched by Nextsapiens (www.nextsapiens.com),an Indian company which deals with different robot based works n robot based machines. The workshop was from 28 - 29 August.
The first day of the workshop had two parts.The first part was the introductory part & the second part was the practice session. At the morning of August 28, first there was a briefing about the basic mechanisms of the robots & about the goals of the workshop. Then after lunch (It was Ramadan actually so we haven't got our lunch!!!) we have gone to the laboratory for the practical. There we were learned how to joint some parts of a mobile robot & how to arrange them & to code the microcontroller to derive the robot. At the first day we learned how to move a robot in different directions & how to control it by programs from the computer.
At the next day, we learned a lots of important things about the locomotion & control of the robot. At first we knew about the works of different sensors like light sensors etc. Then we were given three sensors to connect those with our robots & to control the robot using those sensors by writing effective codes in computers to the microcontrollers. Then we made a code that helps the robot to move in different directions & if it has any kind of barrier in front of it then ot will change it direction.
The next job was to locomote a robot with the help of the mobile phone. This was really one of the most interesting part of the workshop. Then the most interesting part of our workshop came that was to drive the robot in a black track i.e. to run the robot in in a track which was black. The rule was that the robot will go through the black track if it doesn't get any other color(A process of color sensing),if it find any turn then it will turn in that way. This race was really amazing & we all enjoyed that so much. That was the end job of the workshop.
At the end of the workshop there was a photo session & a certificate giving ceremony which was in the DLD laboratory. The certificates were given by Dr. Nurul Huda & Dr. Khawza Iftekhar Uddin Ahmed.
As a beginner of robotics the workshop helped us a lot & it was really encouraging. We learned a lot from the workshop & hope we will efficiently implement it in our project for the next Robotics Championship which will be held in next November/December.
Hope see you again with a another new topic. Till then take care. Bye......................