Inspiration
We all share a love for robots, they're all so cool and fascinating, integrating a physical car with coding, logic and circuits is a feat that we wanted to accomplish, which is why we wanted a chance to design a robot.
What it does
Our robot utilizes a variety of sensors, much like a human uses their senses, to navigate the world, and different obstacles.
How we built it
We used a Geek Creit Micro controller board wired to a Motor controller and the two motors to power the movement of the car. And we wired the infrared sensors to detect whether or not the black line is present under the vehicle, which if it isn't it naviagates the car to centre the car around the line.
To add some spice a carefully curated rocket ship, to symbolize the outer space theme, was mounted on our robotic vehicle. Because visual aesthetics is important and we pay attention to detail.
Challenges we ran into
One issue that we had was making the robot follow the line. It was very difficult and complex to code that ability so there was a lot of troubleshooting to do Our team is immensely proud of our accomplishments during the hackathon. Despite some recurring challenges, we successfully developed a functional robotic car that uses IR sensors to navigate a line of black tape. One of our biggest accomplishments was the innovative code we introduced to program our robot to be autonomous. In addition to that, a huge accomplishment was our problem-solving and teamwork skills. When we encountered a problem, we broke it down, discussed it as a team, and fixed it together.
Throughout the process of building our robot, we learned a lot. We learned that robots don't always function as you want them to: they sometimes have minds of their own. We learned that even by following instructions, a lot can still go wrong. We also learned how to think on our feet to solve complex problems.
Our next steps are to continue learning. We didn't achieve all that we wanted to during this hackathon, so there's definitely room for improvement. In the future, we want to attend more hackathons, build more projects, and have a deeper understanding for Arduino.
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