Dismantling

Last Saturday we encountered our first problem. The cables of the sensors are too small for our solution. So, we'll have to dismantle our robot and start from scratch. (Shame on us)


Good bye dear friend! :)

Testing Rotation

Last Thuesday, we tested for the first time the motor that gives rotation to the crane. It works quite well. Now we just have to build the crane and start coding.

Check out our first test:

First Steps

Hello,

Last week we took our first steps on the project. We began to decide whether the robot should move or not. Firstly, we thought it should move but after some thinking we decided it should stay still. It would be easier since we would not have to calibrate the motor wheels and we could use those sensor to move the crane. Yes, we're having a nice, big crane.

So we began to build the base of the robot. It is hexagonal, because our enemies are coming from six different positions. The motor which will make the crane rotate is at the center of the hexagon.

This is the support of the crane. We are hoping this base supports all the crane's weight.

Group 9

Hello,

We are a group of students, from the University of Madeira on Madeira Island, Portugal. Our names are Mariana Barros, Diogo Cró, John Douglas, Zé Camacho and José Alberto Silva and we are on the third year of Computer Engineering. 

Our purpose with this blog is to share our work, success and failures, while making our Artificial intelligence Project.

Want to know more about our project? click here!

Diogo Cró.