Different robot designs were tested. This is a video of how well our robot ventured off the base ramp.
Archive for July, 2010
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Robot Chase
Posted by Stanley on July 31st, 2010
This is a video on testing the robot drivetrain using Bluetooth remote control.
Moonbots field completed
Posted by CopabX on July 30th, 2010
Last night, we finally finished building the side panels of the Moonbots field. The photos are 3″ shorter than the LEGO base plates, so we used black construction papers to fill in at the corners. It shouldn’t affect the robot performance or the missions one way or another. The field looks pretty cool, all of [...]
Building the side panels
Posted by CopabX on July 25th, 2010
We spent the entire day yesterday to build the side panels for the Moonbots field. It was at least 95 degree outside, extremely hot to do work. We bought plywood in the morning, then cut them down and glue them into small frames. My younger sister helped cut the wood, while Brian and I glued [...]
Robot Design Obsticles
Posted by donger on July 24th, 2010
This week, Karlin worked on the arm of the robot to get the loops, trying to come up with a design that could capture the loops no matter the orientation of the loops. He has gone through many iterations but none to our satisfaction. The robot is still very unstable and not very maneuverable, but [...]
Start of “Real” Phase 2 Work
Posted by Stanley on July 19th, 2010
With the newly arrived LEGO pieces, we swap out the dark gray bricks on the ridges, and finished them with all the light gray pieces we got. With the field finally put together last week (still without the side panels), this was the busiest day with some real design progress! With Brian back from camp [...]
The Longest Field Building Session
Posted by CopabX on July 14th, 2010
It has been a week since we got the Moonbot field kit and built the field…well not quite. There were red pieces missing (or not match up with the parts list), so we substituted with gray pieces, which worked ok. Not enough 2×4 light gray pieces on the ridges, so we used dark gray pieces. [...]
A LEGO Building Party
Posted by CopabX on July 8th, 2010
The long awaited Moonbots packages were finally here yesterday! This time, we opened the real and the right packages. Since two of our members are away in summer camps, we called in a past Landroids member Zach to help us build the field. It was a fun LEGO building party; with people, PCs and pieces [...]
We got a package!
Posted by CopabX on July 3rd, 2010
A mystery package arrived yesterday! We couldn’t wait until our coach came home from work. Three of us gathered at the Landroids workshop, opened the box, and started putting it together. I read the instructions on the laptop out loud, while the others laid out the parts. Gage was leaving for camp that night, we [...]
Moonbots Phase 2 !
Posted by CopabX on July 1st, 2010
The top 20 Moonbots teams was announced on June 21, 2010, Landroids was one of the 20 finalists teams who have been selected to proceed to Moonbots Phase 2! We found this out from a team parent who emailed us while we were in Washington DC on 6/22, touring the Smithsonian National Air and Space [...]