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Physical Features:

• Servo Arm That Captured Balll
• Arm with tire track to knock balls out

Size

• As for size, our robot was pretty big... it bearly met the size requirements.
• Side to side was about 11.5 "
• Top to bottom was also about 11"

Electronics Used

• We used four digital sensors to detect walls or the ball.
• Distance sensor to find the ball.
• 6 motors (2 per for front wheel, 2 for back wheel, 2 for mechanism to kick ball out)
• 3 servos (2 for driving, 1 for arm that captured ball)

Drive Used

• Our Drive was synchro drive with power steering.

Code Features (link to code)

• ball searching algorithms
• line following
• error recovery

Strategy

• Our strategy for this robot was to capture the first ball on the enemy side, and hold on to it. The rest of the time we would be patrolling back and forth across the table to knock out any balls that may have landed. At the end of 45 seconds we would go back to our side to secure at least one point. Simple enough.... not really... it never really worked as we had wanted