Week 4:
With the final week approaching for the ‘Tip The Can’ challenge we knew we had to be close to completing the work for it. This week was all about putting finishing touches to the code and the circuit and ultimately, assembling it into its cardboard chassis. We were all very excited to finally see our hard work get put together and we were really hoping for a successful time on the board.
I did have to redo some of the soldering as it doesn’t always last and can be very fragile. With a few changes being made at different times it was almost inevitable that something would break but thankfully the soldering was an easy fix. We were really confident with our design and even more so because it wasn’t breaching any of the restrictions.
As seen in the pictures, the body was made of cardboard pieces and held together with elastic bands. It was simplistic but effective. We didn’t want to over complicate things when there was already enough involved in making all that was in between the sheets of cardboard and elastic bands!!
As seen from above the robot was the breadboard wired up with the Arduino Nano, sensor, and switch. We were very proud of how this managed to turn out in the end. We were still very anxious to how it would perform next week but were vigilant nonetheless.
This side elevation shows our motors underneath and our wheels attached either side. We decided on plastic bottle lids as they came with a groove built in all around that we were planning on using as a grip for the robot to drive off of.
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