After a failed attempt at the ‘ Tip the Can’ and a week of trying to figure out what went wrong on the day we were ready to attempt the challenge again. It was the motors were damaged and we were unsure if it was a soldering error or a faulty right motor but we switched out the motors. Luckily there was spare motors that fitted our body of the robot that we were able to use. After some tweaking of the code and setting the range finder distance to a smaller distance so it would only pick up the can.
We built the robot shortened a few wires to make the robot more compact and within the length and height restrictions. We headed to the lab and after a few trial runs we were ready to have a time recorded. Our first recorded attempt did not go to plan but we were much more successful and recorded a time. We placed 12th according to the spreadsheet with a time of 12.15.
We were happy with our time but there was plenty of room to improve and to make our robot quicker for the tournament. I think we worked quite well as a team as the project went on and especially when fixing the robot for the challenge.
Below I have embedded a video of our tip the can challenge:
Donal Doherty's Robo Sumo Project 