Author: Kainoa Drost

bIrobot gets a new Shapeoko XXL CNC router

Posted by Kainoa Drost | Nov 20, 2018 | Uncategorized |

Our team recently made the decision to buy a CNC router. A CNC router is a machine that uses a rotating cutting bit to cut and shape pieces of wood, plastic, and aluminium. The machine that we purchased is called a Shapeoko XXL....

Python update

Posted by Kainoa Drost | Mar 12, 2017 | Team Updates |

If you have read my earlier post you know that as a team we have switched the programming language our robot is coded in from LabVIEW to Python. Currently, this decision seems to have been a very good one, as it was fairly easy...

The switch from LabVIEW to Python

Posted by Kainoa Drost | Mar 10, 2017 | Team Updates |

LabVIEW is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. We(bIrobot) used this language last year to program our 2016 robot, Karen. The decision to use this...