Goal:
- To create a 3d printed battle bot that is able to beat all of the other robots.
Planning/Design Proposal:
Overall Objective
To create a battle bot that will beat all of the other robots. We will create a 3d printed robot that uses two steel spinners to attack the other robots and peeps.
Who is involved?
Alex Racel
What resources will your team need?
Most of the parts will be 3d printed, the wheels and drivebase motors will be borrowed from CircuitRunners, and the weapon motors will be motors that are in the classroom.
To create a battle bot that will beat all of the other robots. We will create a 3d printed robot that uses two steel spinners to attack the other robots and peeps.
Who is involved?
Alex Racel
What resources will your team need?
Most of the parts will be 3d printed, the wheels and drivebase motors will be borrowed from CircuitRunners, and the weapon motors will be motors that are in the classroom.
Create:
The robot was 3d printed over the span of a couple days and then was assembled with all of the printed parts along with the motors and hardware that was required. The weapons were originally planed to be made out of steal, but we decided against this due to safety concerns.
Test:
We tested our robot with the driving and the weapon separately due to problems with the robot constantly disconnecting from the phone we were using as a controller. This was concerning since the robot would move uncontrollably until the phone either reconnected or until it lost power. Even when the microbit was connected, the latency made the robot uncontrollable which would be a problem when also running a high powered weapon. We tested the weapon separately against cardboard and thin wood. The weapon was easily able to tear through cardboard, but had some difficulty with the wood since the weapon was unsharpened plastic. While we never ran the robot all together, I would say that the project as a whole was a success.