Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Up and running...sort of

We started meeting again today after our much deserved break! We decided that we were going to continue working on our robot and programming so that when we advance to Phase 2 we will not have wasted any time!

When we were trying to make our digital design of our robot for phase 1 we quickly put a model together, it wasn't as sturdy or as aesthetically pleasing as we would have liked, but it allowed us test out whether or not our design would be able to complete the mission. During our initial test runs our robot had no issues climbing up and over the ridges/craters. Today when we did a follow up test run our robot had quite a few problems, the main one being that it wasn't sturdy enough to handle the roughness of the course.

Here is a video clip of our robot just before it fell apart after a few test runs.

We will be spending the rest of the class rebuilding a sturdier robot. :)

Next class we will continue rebuilding until we can successfully make it up and over the craters and ridges.

Thanks for checking out our blog!

~Jenn

2 comments:

Jenn Howard said...

Good luck! This is of personal interest to me since my father worked on the original lunar rover project way back when.

Molokai Robotics Team said...

Thanks for looking at our Blog, Jenn. How exciting that your father worked on the original lunar rover project! That is amazing to us (and even more exciting that you are checking out our blog)!!!

Thanks again! :)