An Entry to the Pi Wars Competition
With the wooden part of the arena built (minus the walls), it still doesn’t look like a proper arena. Each of the squares in the
Yesterday, as the weather was nice, (not the predicted rain – yay!), I spray-painted the 3 sheep that are already printed, and the 3 Troughs
For me and Toby, it is the Easter holidays. This means that we can spend more time on the robot. So, after a long discussion
This is a post about how we made our arena. Sadly, it does not look quite as cool as the image below: 2 Weeks Ago…
Where are we? We have printed 3 of the 6 sheep and all 3 wolves. At first, I created a solid block with the dimensions
Where are we? As soon as Toby built the tree we thought it looked like the Christmas tree so we decided to make it into
We are at a point where models now exist for all the challenge objects. These are uploaded in their own page here. Three versions of
Following some pretty extensive work on the rotator ring for the robot arm, the power switches and powering the servos from a DC-DC converter connected
While testing the robot arm, the movement is fast enough that it highlighted an issue with the panning servo. After a few movements it was
The servos have up until this point been powered by a separate 4xAA battery pack. This adds weight and another set of batteries to replace.
While testing the robot it would make more sense to be able to power on or off the motors and servos. With space on the
Where are we? So far, we have completed our test robot. This enables us to change where we want components on our final robot -to
With a completed robot arm this job was to add it to the robot and integrate with the PCA9685 servo board. Some code using the
At first, we had the basic limitations that the competition dictated we should have for the apple (as seen below) : But, we also had
This part was really fun as we built the robot arm that we are going to use to pick apples in Nature’s Bounty. We researched
