Origin: 2.007 Design and Manufacturing I
Task:
You seek to score by putting police cars on the dome, by inflating a balloon under the Harvard vs Yale football game, by dumping superballs in Killian Court, and by stealing the Caltech cannon. Robots begin inside their respective starting boxes. Once time starts, your robot(s) may leave the box, but your robot may not cross to the opposite side until one of your robots has passed through the infinite corridor. For the first 15 seconds, your robot operates autonomously and in the subsequent 75 seconds under radio control.
Approach:
I decided to make two different robots, one robot to dump superballs and another one to put the police car on the dome. I will build a minibot that can carry my ball-shooter to the top of building 10, and I will also have another big robot that will be driven by my helper to grab the police car and put it on the top of the dome.
Design features:
Big robot |
The arm of the robot is controlled by one servo motor, and the claw is controlled by another servo motor. So the actions of raising the arm and opening the claw are controlled by different radio channels. Also the two wheels are controlled by the arduino, so there are four different motors on the big robot. I didn't have the time to cut down the wood board to reduce the weight of the robot.
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