Participating in Robocon

Hey There,

You know that I’m supposed to be studying Engineering, Mechanical Design and Production specifically. Actually, my focus in the last 3 years had been business-wise and the skill set I was investing in the most had been everything had to do with the web & business.

I think during that time I didn’t focus on my Engineering skills, you might know that studying at FOE Cairo University, doesn’t give a lot of space for “skills” to develop, other than solving equations and memorizing formulas!

So, Engineering-wise I was planning to somehow work/study Mechatronics Engineering and make it my future career, of course while taking care of the business, or more intelligently delegating that to someone while maintaining ownership. I got some books from the Evil Genius series from a while and decided to get closer to Electronics the upcoming year.

Anywayz, There is an annual competition called ABU Robocon, that’s going to be held this year in Cairo, I joined a team in the faculty and meeting daily from a few days to plan on how to sort things out, participating in the competition, I was lucky to join a team with colleges who previously participated in Robocon last year, they practically didn’t achieve anything, but have good experience. All the team members are really awesome! Zizo, Hussein, Ghandor, Islam, Hussein and myself with the mentor TA Eng. Mohamed Omar.

Competition Website: http://roboconegypt2010.com

While my focus is going to be Mechanical-wise in the project, I’ll appreciate the opportunity to get closer to the Electronics and Control part of making robots too and I think that’s going to be my long-awaited introduction to Mechatronics.

The competition itself is illustrated here:

I’m living a life of an Engineering student though, reading books, watching videos from different universities and soon to get down to Electronics Market / Mechanical Workshops to get / manufacture what we need for the robots.

Wish us good luck 🙂

– Abdo

8 Replies to “Participating in Robocon”

  • Safiya

    By Safiya

    Good luck my friend! Allah be with you =0)

  • Mohd Khawaja

    By Mohd Khawaja

    Good luck .. sounds interesting! 🙂

  • Mahmoud

    By Mahmoud

    I'm kinda confused with the video, but anyway Wish all luck Abdo 🙂

    • abdo_me

      By abdo_me

      Thanks for your wishes!

  • lamiaa_mamdouh

    By lamiaa_mamdouh

    it is my first comment here in ur awsome blog abdelrahman 🙂

    it is a good chance to gain a new experience in something related to ur field in mechanics engineering.Robotics in general became a high demand in all engineering fields as we are in biomedical field has a new elective course called “Robotics” but many people and me one of them runaway from such complicated courses and choose the easier ones 😀
    And for the concidence , STP established a new workshop called “Rapid” and it is for learning “Robotics” too.
    so goo oon abdelrahman , improve egyptian reputation as it's enough for us football bad reputation:D

    • abdo_me

      By abdo_me

      Lamiaa,

      My pleasure having your comment in my humble blog here, best of luck in your studies and we all shall be working for the best to our country's progress and reputation.

      All the best and do let me know if there is anything I can help with 🙂

      – Abdo

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