Just completed our 4th demo. Today everyone seems to be a little bit relief.

Two weeks ago, we “broke” UTM Robocon Team’s record again, as commented by seniors, by performing one of the worst demo ever. It was the 3rd demo, yet none of the robot can perform the task. Everyone was so worried. The supervisors doubted if we should participate in this year competition. One of our best programmers quit and left the team. It was a disaster.

The past two weeks had been very tensed for everyone. Even me stayed overnight at the lab almost every night. We’re given two weeks time to complete our task, and we thought it was impossible. There were too many things to be completed, and we’re lacking of manpower. Everyone stayed back late in the lab to train despite having test the next day.

Today, miracle happened. Besides being able to complete the task, we broke our best time record (completing the task in the shortest time). Although there’re slight technical problems in the process, we managed to solve it in time.

There are still many things to be improved. Many aspects have to be reconsidered. Nonetheless, these two weeks have taught me 3 things:

1) Pressure is required for fast improvement.

2) Things that are impossible for one man, is possible for a team.

3) Life in lab isn’t that bad. In fact,I’m starting to love to sleep here…haha (don’t worry, I’m not crazy… yet =P).

Our next challenge will be in one week time, where we will be competing with UTMKL team to decide which team to represent UTM this year. Hopefully by that time, everyone is ready for the challenge.

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