Week 6

Due to the fact that we had completed our TTC in the first week of the competition this gave us an upper hand to allowing us to begin our design and build for the actual robosumo competition (N/A). Our idea initial was to change the motors and try and find some better more efficient ones online that would give us that extra push against the other competitors. We also knew we had to stay within the competition rules of a 10 x 10 x 10 cm sizing and below the weight of 500g. This meant using a lightweight material for the chassis and made it harder to use some of the ideas we had originally planned.

We also had a light sensor (pictured above) that we were not even sure about even using within our design due to the fact that our plan was for the robot to spin on its own axis and once the rangefinder picked up an opponent it would drive towards it. We felt this was more beneficial because other robots would spend time bouncing around the platform before it cam into contact with us whereas our robot would cut out that nonsense and move towards engaging in the fight straight away. The plan was to think about it and come back next week with a final decision.

After I took measurements for the pieces we knew we would use, sketches were drawn up of these pieces.

Our plans were to go away this week and come up with an idea of what we wanted our final design to look like and to conjugate again in week 7.