Day Three

We decided that we should start the wiring, so we used the instructions that were given on drop box to get a close estimate of what the wiring would look like. We made it so that the wires went from the batteries to the switch then to the motors themselves. We also had to ensure that we were able to detached the wires whenever needed to since we had to still build the frame and body afterwards. It did not take too long until we finally finished the wiring and even tested it out with the motors!

Day Two

Since we did not buy anything the day before we thought it was time to at least do some work. We sat down for a bit and came up with a few designs. We used Google sketch up to create 3D drawings of our robot. Also had decided on which motors we would get so that the next time we met we had something to start on.

Day One

To start our project, we decided to go straight to Active Surplus and see what we can buy right away. On the way there we were going to think of a design as well however when we got there we realized it was going to be much harder than we thought and so we went home with nothing that day. Now although we got nothing at Active Surplus we did in fact think of just a general idea of what we want our robot to be like. We know that we wanted the robot to be as powerful as possible with 12 volt batteries. We also decided that we were not going to the a generic 45 degree angle robot like a lot of other people, instead we thought of having the smallest possible angle at the front.

Intro.

Our team is composed of Evgeny, Andrew, and Chris. We are in Mr.Song's Grade Twelve Class and we decided to make a sweet Sumo Bot together!
Before we even started thinking about the robot we had decided we wanted to use the most powerful motors and try to find wheels with the most traction to go with them. With that in mind, we sort of knew our robot would definitely not be the fastest, so we decided to call it SlowPoke, and then the idea was born.