News - HG Deggendorf: init "Kupris Cup"
In remembrance¹ to one of our most beloved professor Dr.-Ing. Gerald Kupris, a few students picked up on an educational challenge he worked on:
Building, coding and manouvering a racecar (almost) from scratch.
If you want to see the current project status, simply check our public repository: github.com/wuehr1999/ActuatorExtenderI2C
Though competitions like this already exist², most of them require specific hardware, practice unreasonable entry constraints or have an unfair reward system³.
Plus, why travel hundrets of kilometers, if you can do this outside your own door ?
To start things off, our members met at the annual Bayerwald Hackathon - which is was a exciting digital community meetup.
There we started our open hardware/software repository as well as some first organizational reference points.
The contest is planned to have different classes (depending on how much time you want to invest) and will establish an open technology society throughout annual iterations.
If you whish include your own thoughts and ideas into the project feel free to contact us.
We also accept reasonable pull-requests, though we do not require you to have a GitHub account.
¹ https://th-deg.de/de/Presseartikel?id=20785
² NXP-Cup: https://th-deg.de/de/Presseartikel?id=18730
Robotour: https://th-deg.de/de/Presseartikel?id=18723
Robotem Rovne: https://th-deg.de/de/Presseartikel?id=18731
³ If the contests can be credited as academic work, some university permit their participants to skip a course, if they invest this time into the contest preparation.
