Meet our robot!
After several false starts and a grueling 90-hour work week, our team managed to successfully check off on our final project. Using a combination of modular design, dunking mechanism, and two-wheel chassis our bot completed its assigned task in under 2 minutes.
Hello from Max Torque, and thank you for visiting our project website. This site details our team's tragedies and triumphs during our three-week long final project assignment. The goal? Emulate LeBron James, Michael Jordan, or a player of your choosing by building a robot that could, simply put, move balls through baskets. Our team was forced to draw on not only our mechatronics knowledge learned over the past Winter quarter, but also reach deep within for mechanical design techniques, coding practices, and of course hidden reserves of perseverance we never even knew existed. The results, however, spoke for themselves.
Out of this challenge came more than a grade and a deep disdain for the smell of cut Duron. We as teammates grew to appreciate the finer detail behind every great Mechatronics project, the beautiful integration between mechanical design, electronic circuitry, and of course the intense software and code that governs it all. Our individual, specialized knowledge in bases such as computer science and both mechanical and electrical engineering was pooled and shared between us, with the result that each member walked away a little more knowledgeable about the other fields and the interactions between them.
This site details our project design system by system, and lists the schedule of development from beginning to end. It also provides resources for any future teams working on similar projects (and to them we wish good luck!); these include our suggestions for design and management and a few considerations to keep in mind throughout the process. Any questions can be directed to us directly, if the need requires. Again, welcome!
Out of this challenge came more than a grade and a deep disdain for the smell of cut Duron. We as teammates grew to appreciate the finer detail behind every great Mechatronics project, the beautiful integration between mechanical design, electronic circuitry, and of course the intense software and code that governs it all. Our individual, specialized knowledge in bases such as computer science and both mechanical and electrical engineering was pooled and shared between us, with the result that each member walked away a little more knowledgeable about the other fields and the interactions between them.
This site details our project design system by system, and lists the schedule of development from beginning to end. It also provides resources for any future teams working on similar projects (and to them we wish good luck!); these include our suggestions for design and management and a few considerations to keep in mind throughout the process. Any questions can be directed to us directly, if the need requires. Again, welcome!
-Max Torque
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