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Re:Student Robotics on Sunday April 02, 2017 @08:36AM (#14016922)
We are a UK based competition, although we've had teams from France and Germany compete in the past.

The main difference with those other competitions is that the teams are able to take part for free, and we even give them a budget to purchase materials. This allows teams from schools who would not usually have the means or opportunity to take part in these sorts of competitions to take part. This year we have around 45 teams entering robots on the day.

Re:Student Robotics on Sunday April 02, 2017 @07:53AM (#14016821)
We challenge teams of 16 to 18 year-olds to design, build and develop autonomous robots to compete in our annual competition. After announcing the year's game, we give teams six months to engineer their creations. We mentor teams throughout this time, as well as supply them with a kit which provides a framework they can build their robot around. Thanks to our sponsors, we provide this all for free to our teams.
Re:Show HN: Will there be space? on Friday November 04, 2016 @05:18AM (#12871238)
App I made for fun at uni to predict when a certain area might have spaces to work in. Could be useful in a variety of other situations!

Currently has limited protection against malicious users (although there is a ReCAPTCHA to avoid bots) which makes it quick and easy to update a location 'on the go', but I guess we'll see how that goes. :)

Basically all the places on the website so far are from my university (except for a few 'funny' ones from my friends :P), but feel free to create any more you might find useful.

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