Team Convenience: Little Eyes-Eyes


Tim Mickel, Elaina Chai, Chris Tam



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The goal of this contest was to push as many golf balls (1 point) and tennis balls (3 points) across the barrier as possible. We originally intended to tackle this challenge as follows:

Initial strategy After a few weeks of building, the vision positioning system created by the 6.270 organizers was finally ready for testing with the balls. When we tested our original strategy, though, we realized that our robot was too heavy to navigate smoothly. We reconstructed our strategy in the last week:

New strategy

» Setbacks along the way


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Before the competition At the competition Final result: 9th place (tie)

» Lessons Learned


Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 6.270 | © 2011 Tim Mickel, Chris Tam, Elaina Chai