Monday, November 10, 2008

Building the Course Robot

We are now supposed to build our robot so that all sensors can be on it. We looked in the book and it said that we are supposed to build it symmetrical to make the robot more stable and easy to pick a part if we need to. We started with totally rebuilding the bot, this didnt work out too well and we had to re build the taskbot again. One day wasted. We wanted to use the shooter so we planned to have it in front. The problem that then appeared was that the touch and ultrasonic sensors and the shooter had to be in front. Our solution to the problem was to build a tower with all those things on it. The sound sensor was the easiest to apply as it could be put basically anywhere, we put it on top for simplicity. The light sensor was also easy to apply and there was no discussion that the light sensor should be at the back. Combined with our last-minute-applied treads the robot probably won the ugliness contest.

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