Week 5 - Austin's Issues

Today, we discussed the issues of Austin, looked at some robot designs, and find out how to express our ideas with physical parts easily and accurately.

We talked about some issues about our home city, Austin, and what we can do to improve our city.

We also talked about the robot design as well. We were thinking about the SUV competition box robot, but there were some major flaws in this box robot.

The SUV can't turn well because it's so big, and the attachments take a lot of time and parts to make, causing a very costly robot design. 

On the other hand, box robots in general are stable and can hold a heavy load, and the robot can run along the side of the walls of the board, providing guidance.

We took some time to make a brief structure, but we realized that it's hard to discuss our thoughts when dealing with physical parts.

The solution was to break up the project into different parts, then assign each person to a part, so nobody has to communicate when building the robot.

We will post a table with all of our pros and cons about the robots we suggested. For now, we will build the box robot 3 and try out the SUV box robot.