Ping pong ball launcher

Finally, I have arrived at my final design for my ping pong ball launcher(s). The design which can be seen below takes inspiration from a slingshot like mechanism, using the potential energy of an elastic band to shoot the ball out when the trigger is pressed (clothes peg). As it is not…

Obstacle course complete!

Now that I had made my ping pong ball launcher, set up the obstacle course in my kitchen, the only task I had left…

Assembly

So after a long and eagerly anticipated wait, our robot kits finally arrived last week. The robot kits were smaller than I expected, however…

Getting started

After some long and frustrating technical difficulties getting set up on Solid works from home, I have been able to make a start…

Design changes

Wheel stabiliser

After some long and careful consideration, I decided to use a wheel stabiliser to stabilise my robot when tackling the obstacle course. Initially, my preference was to not use a stabilising mechanism, because I thought my robot was balancing quite well on its…

Preliminary draft

Hello again, over the last few days I’ve been putting in some more work on the CAD design for my robot, and I’m happy to say…

CAD complete

Finally, I have the CAD model of my robot fully complete. To the naked eye it might not appear like I have made too many changes to the…

Obstacle course

The next task of the project was to build the obstacle course for the robot. Thankfully, whoever laid the tiles in my kitchen new…