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
In a few hours we had spare, I built the tree with additional help from Dad. The first step was to draw it out, after
I realised that I hadn’t put in SCAD the updated 4 pack AA battery holder used in the current test robot. They are fractionally bigger
Prior to building/3d printing the proper robot we are using a base made a few years ago. This is handy as it allows us to
The existing Pi Zero was struggling to have enough power on the USB port to drive the remote control dongle, so needed to be replaced
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