The goal of this was to securely mount the electrical chocolate bloc provided by the competition organisers to the robot. The challenge was to do
We need to mount the line follower on the base on the robot in the centre. After some quick research I found that, for it
Today we got the robot working again after a long nap in a dusty box in the corner of the loft. In overview, we: First
(A summarised and up to data version of the challenge status for 2024 and how we plan to complete all the challenges is also available
Was it a silly idea at the last minute to add an Pi Cam to capture FPV videos of each of the challenges? Short answer
With time short and the unheard of concept of KISS [Keep It Simple Stupid]. Seriously what’s the point of being an engineer if you cant
Its a Lemming, so needed a head to go along with the arm. The game from the early 90’s on the Amiga and the associated
One of the challenges that up until this point we weren’t able to complete is Hungry Cattle. Its time to put that right! I started
In order to have the robot issue rousing Lemming quotes while we perform the challenges we needed an amp and speaker for the Pi. We
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
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
We thought that just having a carboard tree was boring so we: At first we went with a base colour which was green and then
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