4/4/11

Today in class we prepared to do a Tug-Of-War game. We started by watching videos of the 2009 competition that the other FRINQ classes. We then got a few ideas on how to set up our robot to work well for the game. As you can see in the picture we decided that putting the tires sideways against the table would create the most friction, making it that much harder for the other robot to pull ours forward. Then we decided to use the motors, pulling in the opposite direction, to pull the string away from the other robot. Combine all that with the weights that we are going to put on our robot, and we have a big competitor in this game. Jake, Tina and myself had a good time getting creative in class today and figuring out how to work with the pieces that we had to get a good result. The building of the robot was definitely a lot more challenging then the programming of it. The programming was fairly easy, it only took a few steps to do. The hardest part was figuring out how to get both motors to do the same thing at the same time, using the splitting block was a lot easier once I figured out how to do that. I think that we worked really well together and that our robot has a very good chance of winning in our competition on Wednesday.