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Overview of the day: Further designing of robot and ordering new wheels. Deciding against using the IR sensor. First draft of final code for robot written. Lab work: Our objective for this week was to finalise a design and start drawing it in Solidworks. Adam has experience with this application and so he mainly didContinue reading “Week 7: Further designing”

Overview of the day: We disassembled our robot and started sketching and designing how our Robosumo robot would look. I got working on the IR sensor and we decided to use a 9V battery in our robot. Lab work: Thankfully we had posted a good time in the Tip the can competition last week, soContinue reading “Week 6: Planning and designing for Robosumo”

Overview of the day: In the lecture Ted briefly went through the plan for the day and the room the competition would be taking place. We then had to assemble our robot and buy wheels for it last minute. We then competed in the competition. Lab work: We started off the lab with Adam showingContinue reading “Week 5: Building the robot and the Tip the Can competition”

Overview of the day: During the lecture Ted went through the rangefinder code and setup as well as reiterating the size and weight requirements for the tip the can competition. Once we got to the lab Cillian finalised our code with help from me and Adam and I soldered wires to the switch. We discussedContinue reading “Week 4: Finishing touches to our code”

Overview of the day: We started off in the lecture with Ted explaining the SN754410NE driver chip in more detail. He then introduced us to the momentary switch that we would be using for the tip the can competition, showing us how to wire it up and connect it to the rest of the circuit.Continue reading “Week 3: Momentary switch and rangefinder”

Overview of the day: Week 2 started off with a lecture from Ted about getting our WordPress blog up and running, giving us the rough module schedule, explaining the tip the can competition, teaching us of the importance of colour coding and finally introduced us to laser cutting and the application Inkscape. We then movedContinue reading “Week 2: Troubleshooting a broken Arduino, starting to develop the motors and starting my blog”

Overview of the day: Week 1 started off in room 8 where Ted introduced us to the competition of RoboSumo, where 2 automated robots are placed in a ring and have to push each other out of a designated boundary. What we will be doing isn’t up to as high of a standard as theContinue reading “Week 1: Module introduction and intro to coding”