This weekend we went to another competition in Tehachapi. I drove the robot with Amy as my co-pilot first. We scored the highest points for our team. After several rounds we went to a different room and presented our Technical presentation. That was fun and easy. We then went back and compl...
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Today we went to a regional Jr. Robotics competition in Newhall and won the Directors award and the Perfomance award. The directors award is the highest award and includes the robot performance and our presentation. The performance award is because we achieved the high points for the whole day...
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For our research project we have decided to invent a cart that helps disabled people carry things. This is called the R.P.A.C.. Tonight we worked on the R.P.A.C.. The R.P.A.C. stands for Robotic Personal Assistance Cart. I built a basket the swings to keep things level. Lucy drew a picture...
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Tonight we worked on the research project. Each year we are given a challenge to solve. This year we were asked to look around our communities to find difficulties a disabled person might face, and solve the problem using robots. Last week we each took an idea home to research. Tonight, we...
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Today our team managed to build an arm to deliver balls to the hoop. Our main goal is to try to get the ball into the center of the hoop. So far we don't have any templates for this program so it is hard to set up the robot to drop the ball into the center. I got the ball into the center five...
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Today at LEGO league we started to build the pieces to the mat. Amy and I first built a table, that was easy. Then we built the bus things. We don’t know what those are yet. I spent extra time to build the gate....
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