Today we met at the Magases' house again. For Crocobots, it was just the three of us: Jackson, Dylan, and Moriah. We mainly worked on building some equipment for us to be able to remotely activate the Compost mission model and/or bring the compost puck back to Safety. Our two ideas: a cart powered by gravity and a glorified extendable accordion stick! Pictures are down below. The cart was an idea we came up with last week, which Jackson had some time to tinker with, while the stick is actually a little toy that we built over the summer and saw as something we could use to complete missions without leaving Safety, as it reaches almost all the way across the board when extended but still fits in Base in its compact form.. It's also the official Crocobot weapon (you can extend it and retract it quickly and poke someone with it). Both still have some problems that we still need to work out. The cart's weight lever is restricted by the height of Base (12 inches), which means that in its current form it doesn't go as far as we need it to. For the stick, it is not very accurate (we ended up punching the plastic bag and turtle multiple times while testing it) and we still need to figure out how to attach it to the robot. Nevertheless, we had a lot of fun building and testing these two crazy contraptions in the hopes that at least one, if not both, will work out for us.
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December 2016
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