IMC was established in 2007 by 5 students in Gebze, to work on the engineering fields related to robotics and compete in global competitions. By selling scraps, our former teammates earned some money to participate in a competition and formed a working spot by themselves. In the first year, our club has started its journey with competing in FLL. In 2011, which was a milestone for our team, team members attended FRC for the first time as the 4th team from Turkey. We have been participating in the FRC for 9 years.
With new additions each year, IMC has 32 members from more than 10 different cities and different year groups now. Every 11th-grade student is responsible for educating the new members of the team. 4 years ago, our PR department started to work not only for sponsorship but also to spread the FIRST values by creating projects on our nature, gender equality, etc. and complete award applications such as Chairman’s and Entrepreneurship. For last season, we formed a new FTC team, IMC team #14331, as the second FTC team from Turkey and a new VRC team, #46262, as one of the first teams formed. With its present members, IMC more than a team, a family.
Professionalism
Team spirit
Experience
Inanc Mechatronics Club
Mechanic
We are planning and drawing our robot’s technical design on SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor before we start to build it. After we completed the technical drawing, we are printing the parts by the help of our sponsors, and our buddy teams. We try to arrange our electronics system as minimal as possible. Also, we control every connection before testing to avoid accidents.
Programming
We use LabView, Java, and Pyhton to program our robots. We develop communications and computer vision applications while programming.
Public Relations
We are finding financial supports for maintenance of IMC. Also, we are creating and achieving social projects such as Hit the Road, Alican and Ela's Robotics Journey, IMChina, Carbon Footprint Project, SDSN, Robot Hand, IMCleaner and Earthquake Robot. With this projects, we are trying to solve big problems of our world like gender and education inequality, physical disabilities, earthquake, restrictions and we are trying to maintain sustainability.