Above is the robot I built at its current state although I am constantly tweaking and improving. In the front of the robot there is a contraption that I call the rake that picks up the orange balls that you can see scattered around the field. The rake is attached to a sort of conveyor belt that I can move up and down with a remote control. Once the rake is all the way down I can drive the robot into the balls to get them in the rake. After they are in the rake I put the rake all the way up to dump them in the bucket in the back. When the bucket is full I can then score points by backing up into the pipe fence and dump the balls like a dump tuck onto the other side and score one point per ball. In upcoming posts I will show videos of me practicing driving the robot.
Looks cool! You should have more pictures though.
ReplyDeleteReally cool Josiah. You should add a picture of the robot you are going to use in your competition.
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