Last time we left our not so intrepid and not so adventures heroes (the snowflake team), the spinning death machine, uh I mean our little out of control robot could move, its wheels spun like, well I guesses wheels; yes we had little control over the machine but it did move. So with Christmas fast approaching we called it a year and headed home, fast forwarding roughly a month and a whole load of test, and yes they did go horrifically thank you for asking, the snowflakes got back to work on our definitely not evil machinations.
Having made a relatively unstable robot, the team decided that the robot, we will call it Jeff for now, needed a more stable base and for that it would need to have more wheels. Seeming to have learnt a thing or two from Jeff 1.0 and some how grown more competent over Christmas, set upon the task with speedy and relatively smooth haste, Jeff soon had his new upgrades.
And they worked, no flying wheels, no failing programs and no jiggly chasse just a firm responsive vehicle that went whizzing about the whole class room (I would show you a video of it but I don’t feel like spending an exuberant amount of money (any amount of money is a lot to a teenager) on a small part time competition blog).
So now we can walk, next week were planning to run (meaning, moving is walking for robots, running is being able to complete tasks and we are also designing attachable components). But you will have to tune in next week, ok probably in two weeks time, to see whether or not we scuffed up (highly probable) and what tasks Jeff can do.
(Ah, Jeff’s like a crawling baby, he has so much potential; I just hope that he does his laundry).
Snow Flakes Pi Wars 2020 