Construction of the robot
After having received our kit and rules the night of the competition's launch, we started the long and frustrating journey of prototyping and constructing. We began to design the robot on paper and ended up with a schematic composed of an amalgamation of all our ideas and concepts.
Over the time-span of the project, we had formulated many ideas. Here are just a few:
Our initial idea was to use compressed air to propel the projectile to the target, however upon consultation of the competition's rules, we realized that in order to use compressed air we had to construct an air compressor "in-house"; not only didn't we have the expertise, but time wasn't on our side, so we were back to square one.
Our next idea was to perhaps construct a conveyor belt as our primary loading system for the projectiles which would be later propelled to the target area, however once again we were stopped in our footsteps upon realization that such a system would be complicated to operate and would require too much time to fabricate; once again we went back to the drawing-board...
 We're now purchasing the necessary parts to construct our Robot. |
 What Geek can resist the abundance of tech in this store?! |
 Johnny verifies the robot... |
 Here we check the mechanisms and connections. |
 This is the Bean Bag's loading and launching mechanism. |
 Here's AJ perfecting the shovel's loading mechanism. |
 Here are some teachers discussing the solutions various obstacles ahead. |