{"id":81422,"date":"2024-02-08T11:32:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/districtmailhelderberg\/roboteers-join-this-club-20240207-3-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T06:37:27","slug":"roboteers-join-this-club-20240207-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/districtmailhelderberg\/roboteers-join-this-club-20240207-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Roboteers, join this club!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Helderberg Robotics Club (HRC) invites interested youngsters and prospective roboteers to its open day at the New Apostolic church hall in Church Street, Somerset West on Saturday (10 February) from 10:30 to 13:00. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a free outreach and delegates can take along their own laptop if they want to programme their first robot. The event entails a presentation and workshop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year the HRC added the Advanced Robotics Challenge to their offering by programming a robot car to drive autonomously around a track using artificial intelligence to navigate it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helderberg Robotics clinched gold at last year\u2019s World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Nationals with roboteers Raaid Fajandar and Michael Shepstone flying the basin\u2019s flag by building an Arduino robot and programming it in C++.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year HRC will extend its offering to also include RoboTennis, where two robots will play against two opponents hitting a ping-pong ball over a barrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club\u2019s members meet twice a month on a Saturday for two hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Saturday classes vary from teaching the novice who has not done robotics before to the more experienced roboteers doing the Future Engineers category. 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