(our group minus Takumi)Today is the day that we tested our robots. We spent the first part of class charging and preparing our robot for battle. Our robot is now an elephant. Her name is Jillian and she is absolutely adorable (see picture below). After we charged Jillian up, she was ready to beat everyone in the tug-of-war contest.
On the first round, we beat the team. After that we lost our battle with the team that initially won the whole contest. We won 2 out of 2 of our games. Our robot would of done so much better if we had added extra weight. The two teams that beat us both were weighed down. Later after the completion when both of those teams took off their weight, we beat both of them. If we would of known that we could of added weight, we would of won the whole contest. Our design was overall the best and the most creative.
Our software worked very well overall. The gears started to move, and did move each time a loud noise was made. Because of the way that the gears were made, the actual pulling of the other team’s robot did not happen until after a few seconds. The lever that was programmed to pull up and jerk the rope towards our robot worked well and helped to throw off the other robots. Our program worked very well and our group was happy with the results of our robot.
During mentor session, we took apart our poor elephant robot, that way we can create a new robot. This new robot needs to be able to follow a line and start when it is on red, pass the red once, then end at the red. During class, we just worked on building the robot. We plan on working on the program this weekend and then we will be ready to test our robot on Monday!
this is Jilliam the robot!
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