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This site includes everything you, a prospective autonomous robot-builder, would need to recreate our robot for the 2018 Winter ME210 project! This robot will be capable of following a black line on the ground and turning to navigate its way around a course of your choice. The robot will also be able to dispense small balls (or buzzwords) whenever required. Our robot dispensed balls into seesaws known as Funding Rounds, which were marked by gray tape, but let your imagination run wild for potential buzzword dispensing locations. Perhaps you could print your resume very small and dispense outside corporate headquarters. The world is your oyster.
Under the headings above there is extensive information regarding the Mechanical, Electronic and Software design elements of our robot, as well as detailed sketches and 3D CAD models so that you could easily recreate our design. We have also included a section on tips and tricks which we learned, often the hard way, during our manufacturing, prototyping, and debugging processes. Hopefully these will allow you to avoid some of the same pitfalls that slowed our progress.
Finally, we hope the gallery will give you an idea of the fun we had making our robot and watching it compete- quite successfully- in the final competition for the class. We hope you too could have as much fun recreating our robot as we had designing it in the first place.
Leila Taleghani, Heidi Peterson, Ben Fearon, Aidan Biggar
This site includes everything you, a prospective autonomous robot-builder, would need to recreate our robot for the 2018 Winter ME210 project! This robot will be capable of following a black line on the ground and turning to navigate its way around a course of your choice. The robot will also be able to dispense small balls (or buzzwords) whenever required. Our robot dispensed balls into seesaws known as Funding Rounds, which were marked by gray tape, but let your imagination run wild for potential buzzword dispensing locations. Perhaps you could print your resume very small and dispense outside corporate headquarters. The world is your oyster.
Under the headings above there is extensive information regarding the Mechanical, Electronic and Software design elements of our robot, as well as detailed sketches and 3D CAD models so that you could easily recreate our design. We have also included a section on tips and tricks which we learned, often the hard way, during our manufacturing, prototyping, and debugging processes. Hopefully these will allow you to avoid some of the same pitfalls that slowed our progress.
Finally, we hope the gallery will give you an idea of the fun we had making our robot and watching it compete- quite successfully- in the final competition for the class. We hope you too could have as much fun recreating our robot as we had designing it in the first place.
Leila Taleghani, Heidi Peterson, Ben Fearon, Aidan Biggar