FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) is a robotics competition for students aged 12–18 to design, build, and program a robot to compete in an alliance format against other teams. But it’s way more than just building robots! FTC empowers students to...
Read moreThe FLL Hobart Regional 2024 was held at Sacred Heart College on 9 November 2024. The theme for the year was Submerged, which challenged teams to ito dive into a problem faced by people who explore the oceans. Teams also...
Read moreDevil Robotics has participated in the annual Bruny Island Science Fun Day for the past two years. This free, all-ages community event held at the Quarantine Station features hands-on science activities and engaging guest speakers. We love bringing our LEGO-based...
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Devil Robotics has proudly hosted the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Hobart Regional each year since 2019, with teams from more than 30 schools and organisations across Tasmania participating over that time. The Hobart Regional feeds into the National Championship South, Read more…
Build a robot that can drive up to a gap, deploy a bridge, and then use the bridge to cross the gap. Each team was limited to a maximum of two large yellow plates. Before starting this challenge, we reviewed Read more…
This week’s challenge required teams to solve a problem faced by a character in a fairy tale or fable. For example:
Starting with some example code, design and build a robot game. As a warm-up everyone was provided with a sheet containing basic code for three different types of game and had to see if they could work out what the Read more…
This week’s challenge was to make a robot react to the inputs from two different sensors. Up until this week, we’ve been randomising the groups. This week, however, participants had the option of choosing their own teams, but with the Read more…
The main challenge was to build a robot that can hold a marker pen and do some robot art. As an intro activity, we provided a bunch of example programs designed to draw different shapes (e.g. square, spiral, circle, star, Read more…
This challenge had two parts: We also had a discussion about different kinds of turn – which we called “turn on the spot”, “one-wheel turns”, and “two-wheel turns” – and how to do these in the SPIKE software.
As President of Devil Robotics, I am pleased to present our annual report, highlighting the achievements and progress of our organisation over the past year. Devil Robotics is a volunteer-led organisation dedicated to inspiring students in grades 5 through 12 Read more…
Design and build a robotic pet that uses sensors to interact with its environment. We started with a discussion about what are the features of a good pet. For some reason we ended lots of dogs, but we also had Read more…