Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Tron, Our Robot




Tron is our robot. He's gone through many modifications. His current base was constructed by our lead builder Zyan, he designed him by comparison to another model. Then Isaac, another excellent builder added the forklift, other attachments were later made by all the other builders to improve our performance.

We chose to use four bicycle like wheels, because according to our research, they spun more accurately together. The back wheels do not have rubber, so the robot could turn easier.

Out main attachment is a forklift, we chose a forklift because we found that the mission models were at different heights. We built a bucket that can be attached to the forklift, to catch the bacteria and the rat. We also have a reverse plow that can be attached to the bucket to acquire the fish. The purple fish-returner on the back of the reverse plow, was made to return the baby fish. The dingle-whopper(the black axle pointed down) was simply made to hook the refrigerated truck. The whang-doodle( the gray axle facing up) is to push the lever on the bacteria dispensers.

1 comment:

Apple said...

Wow.
That is impressive...high tech man! Really cool.
...Mine looks like a little golf club...
:)