As you may no doubt know, building a robot is hard; but then again easy, with the Pi starter set, however this set will not get you very far, underpowered motors, low voltage batteries, no proper frame and a whole other host of shortcomings. I mean gosh it is almost as like they had designed the thing so that you could not win the competition by simply building the set. So I think the phrase back to the drawing board is appropriate here, except from the fact that we were never really there, and so the snow flakes got down to designing.
As you can see here these are our plans for Jeff mark 2, you can’t see all of it, security reasons you see, we can’t allow spies from other teams to gloat over our immaculately drawn schematics for our Jeff mobile 9000 and steal ideas. Saying that, I highly doubt any other teams are looking at this as – wait one- I just decided to look around at the other blogs and gosh some people have access to a 3D printer, what have we got, some wood a couple sharp piece of metal and the empty attics that we call our brains. I was going to say it seemed a bit of a futile effort but on second thoughts you really can get some useful pieces of information from the blogs. Snowflake command was right, we do have to guard our secrets carefully, not that we have any. Any way where was I, oh yes covering our research, while part of the snowflakes were actively designing Jeff mk2, the rest of the team was researching the challenges, through the use of YouTube (‘definitely’ watching related videos) and using the official pi wars website, so that we could use this information to aid the design team. One problem that we repeatedly bumped up against was the power problem, to put it simply the few double a batteries we had were inadequate, It’s time to up the voltage.
Return back next week (hopefully we will have decided by then what batteries to settle on and my lazy ass has finished the task of writing the blog -I know, it’s a longshot but cross your fingers and dream) to see the what new batteries we settle on, woo how exiting, and the continuation of the snowflakes robotics adventure. In the mean time keep calm and stay snow flakey.
Snow Flakes Pi Wars 2020 