On the afternoon of Monday, June 29, the EIL students participated in a Lego robot football competition. They were divided into ten teams (mostly of four students) with task of designing a robot that could score goals in an arena with other robots. This laboratory experience was masterfully designed by Dr. Tom Howard, University Teacher in Computing, Control and Electrical Engineering at the Diamond. Each team was provided with at template Java program that (when completed) could allow the robot to be moved by a laptop keyboard. The students had to add a motor and kicker mechanism to enable their robot to play football (aka soccer) in a match with all the other robots. In true World Cup fashion, each team chose a country for their robot to represent and the team representing DR Congo scored the only goal in a 15 minute melee that seemed more like a battle-bot competition rather than a game of football.
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