The Making of Me





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The basic tenants of my design were four fold and are as follows...

#1-Narrow body in order to allow for safe passage between the balls (less than 6 inches wide)

#2-Hand-like mechanisms on the top which could rotate down to the left and right sides of my body in order to allow for ball color sensing and retrieval as necessary.

#3-Drive control was based on a three wheeled system that was part based on differential steering from the two drive wheels located on the left and right sides of my undercarriage and in part on the reliability of the third rear wheel, set on a servo which allowed for precise turns.

#4-Look damn sexy, and I think we will all agree, that design constraint was definitely met.



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