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The Surrey Electronics and Amateur Radio Society aims to support students in exploring all aspects of electronics, amateur radio, and even space technologies. We do this via our Makerspace, Radio Shack, Satellite Ground Station.
We run courses on coding, 3D Printing, Amateur Radio, and many more, as well as hosting many competitive robot building competitions throughout the year. We welcome all students, regardless of their university course! If you have any interest at all in electronics, we’d be delighted to have you.
The Makerspace is our 24/7 multidisciplinary lab and workshop available to our members for creation and development in all different areas of STEM that they may not cover within their degree programme.
It is outfitted with the equipment to allow for industrial design & 3D printing, electronics, programming and is also a great space for individuals and groups of students to study and socialise.
New for this year we have 4 teams of students, from multiple disciplines, designing and building combat robots to enter into national competitions.
Our first event will be in Bristol for the beetle weight division (1.5kg) on the 22nd of February. We hope to enter at least 2 robots in this event and be the first University of Surrey combat robot team.
We also have a larger featherweight class (13.6kg) robot for competition in April, the team are using an innovative 4 bar linkage mechanism and are pushing the knowledge they have learnt inside and outside their degrees to the limit to create a very capable bot.
We have just run our Amateur Radio Licensing Course for this semester and huge congratulations to those who attended. 25 foundation licenses, 2 intermediate and 1 direct to full license were awarded at our examination, making it one of the largest in the UK.
We will be running these again next semester, they are open to students, staff and the general public and are one of the best ways to get an introduction to amateur radio.
They are free and are run over the weekend with the exam at the end. Please email us if you are interested in attending our next one!
There has been a great deal of interest in our satellite ground station. Members have been hard at work renovating and restoring much of the equipment in preparation for multiple events and projects planned for this year.
There are plans for a large 'moonbounce' array of antennas to go up to reflect radio signals off the moon, and restoration of the main 1.2m moveable satellite dish to be used for radio astronomy experiments.
On the 7th February the University of Surrey’s Electronics & Amateur Radio Society (EARS) hosted its 2024 ScraphEEp Challenge robot building competition.
This year, teams of contestants ranging from first year students all the way up to postgraduates and staff, had just three hours to design and build functioning robots using only materials from our large scrap pile in order to complete the obstacle course.
During the event it was great to see the ingenuity of the teams coming up with ideas that we never would’ve thought of.
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