Unfortunately, we did not make it through Tip The Can Challenge. We faced several difficulties which made it stressful on that day. The first problem was that when our robot was hitting the can, the switch did not press, so the robot did not reverse and stop. The second problem was the battery, the rangefinder …
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Tidying Up Our Robot
The RoboSumo competition requires a lightweight and powerful robot than the Tip The Can competition robot. There is a risk that if our wiring is exposed, our competitor could take one out, which will lead to a broken circuit at the end. This means that we needed to remove all the extra parts of the …
Coding For Tip The Can Challenge
Our robot will use a rangefinder to detect the can. One of the motors will go forward while the other goes backwards so the robot will rotate around itself. Once the rangefinder detects the can, the robot will move forward to tip the can. We will place a switch in front of our robot so …
Building The Robot For Tip The Can Challenge
The motors and the wheels are an essential element of the robot, so we as a team decided to use rounded wheels which will make our robot move smoothly and without much drag. The wheels that we picked were thin to fit within size restrictions. We looked at some websites to buy our robot’s pieces …
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My First Blog Post
We began Robosumo by doing a challenge called The LED Flash Challenge. The purpose of this challenge was to teach us how to control the LED’s using the Arduino. Also, programming using binary numbers was involved in the challenge. At the start we sat a task for each member of the team. I worked on …
LED Flash Challenge Succeeded
In today’s lecture on our Design Projects, we were advised that the blink speed of the LED will never be the same as what we set it in the programme. If we program an LED to blink for 0.1 seconds, for example, it might blink for 0.134 seconds. I added delays at the beginning and the end of the LED pattern because my lecturer advised me to do it. The purpose of these delays was to make the testing device calibrate itself. We compiled the program and tested it. The LED’s were working fine, so we were expecting that we were …
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