We're building a robot – without a workshop, but with big ambitions!
Imagine a team of students with heads full of ideas, enthusiasm greater than their experience, and tools spread out… everywhere. This is exactly what building our first robot for the X-Challenge 2024 competition looked like. We didn't have our own workshop, we didn't have professional facilities, and our desks often changed locations—one time it was a vacant classroom, another time it was tables in the hall outside the school auditorium.
And yet – we started the project.
Struggling with a lack of time, a modest budget, and even less experience, we set about building a robot to compete in the Task Hunters competition. There was a lot of chaos, soldering on my knee, and makeshift tests on floor tiles. But there was also something that can't be measured by any measure: passion, determination, and boundless creativity.
We started with ideas—bold, sometimes crazy, but always ambitious. We slowly put our project together, combining knowledge gained in class, after hours, and… through trial and error. The result? A working prototype and a complete presentation ready for the competition.
Did everything work right away? Of course not. But every glitch was a lesson, and every success a spark that fueled us. We worked wherever space was available: in the computer lab, in the hallway, on the floor by the window. It wasn't a perfect laboratory, but it was the space where our first collaborative project—a robot with a soul—was born.
Today, we look back with pride. Because although we lacked the necessary resources, we had what was most important: a team that believed it was possible. And it was then that "Mechanik TEAM" was born – not in a modern workshop, but in the hearts of young designers who decided to build something great… starting from scratch.
