Now that FLL is over, it's time to start working on robot for NRC 2010 that is going to start in another 2 months time.
One of the most common complaints i heard from teachers and students were regarding the difficulty of Vertical Limit - the upper secondary event for regular category. Since no sample solutions are being provided this year, most schools (at least the ones i know) must be scratching their heads, or, should i say, pulling their hair from their scalp just to come up with a workable solution.
To add more salt to the injury, the recent update on the rules requires the robot to move from pole A to pole B AUTONOMOUSLY !!! surprise, surprise (O.O) Muahahaahaha....
It was not the organizer who wanted to play a prank on all the schools who participated in NRC 2010 but because the WRO committee keeps changing the rules as NRC 2010's events are based on WRO. (being an ex-Sasbadi trainer, i can attest to this )
This got me thinking a little - how on earth do you make a robot that can climb a pole 25mm in width, collect a ping pong ball, come down, move on to the next pole ALL BY ITSELF, and repeat the same thing again while using only 1 NXT controller, 3 motors, & 4 sensors (max) ?
I have been sketching up a robot using simple shapes & once i am done i will post up the sketches to share with you guys, so stay tuned :)
p.s. i'm not good in drawing :P
2 comments:
Just wondering, will there be a BLACK line connecting both the POLES together?
Yeah, I have been cracking my head wondering how we going to accomplish all this using only 3 NXT motors....
Yea, there will be black line connecting the poles
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