With everything finished we wanted to upload one last video and some photos of the final looks of slowpoke!
Design
The second drawing is a diagram of the wiring for one of two motors.
Day Ten
With the robot finally finished we had only a few things left to do, we needed the controller, and a proper carrying case for it and the batteries. This turned out to be a bit more difficult than originally thought but after a few hours it was done and just needed to be painted.
Day Nine
We finally finished the touch ups and we painted the first coat. We was a bit of a challenge considering everything had to be cut perfectly and screwing it in was just awkward but it is finished at last!
Day Eight
We finally put together the metal parts on to the robot. Although it does not look fully ready it is actually ready to compete, all that is needed now is the finishing touches and it will be good enough for the robot competition. It took us a while to assemble everything together but the metal was good it was light enough to cut with scissors making the process a lot easier!
Day Seven
Finally we have built something. We actually started by fastening the motors to a piece of wood that went in between what we are using as the walls of the robot. After we finished everything we realized it needed wheels on the side to support it went it tipped to each side. Once we attached the extra wheels we were done for the day after a bit of testing it out that is. It is officially functional and almost ready to compete!
Day Six
Today not much work was done. We spent a lot of the time just make sure the motors worked and the wheels were tight enough. Besides testing we also came up with an improvement to the original design of the robot.
We decided that we would be a lot better like that since the other robots would be faster and the older design would not be able to defend itself from attacks to its rear side.
Day Five
We figured it was time to, at least, get the batteries for the robot so that we would be able to test out the body and frame that we make right away. We got two 12 volt batteries at Active Surplus for a relatively low price compared to other stores where we saw one battery for about 68 dollars. Since we were ready to try the motors out we figured we should build a case for the batteries too that way we would not have to worry about it later.
Day Four
The next logical step for us was to prepare the motors and attach the wheels. We figured this would be the easiest way to go that way we could just hook up the motors to the body and it would work from there. We went to home depot but they did not really have what we needed so we had to go to a specialty shop which just gave us the parts we needed for free! We just put the wheels straight on the end of the motors.
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