Robotics

Me and RK made an attachment that picks up the traffic jam. The traffic jam is a challenge where you are supposed to lift the traffic jam, which is a flat lego plate with fake lego cars, both of the sides have a handle to lift it with your attachment. To make this attachment we had to think about how we want to do this. The first thing we thought was for the robot to come right next to the traffic jam and have the robots motor to pick it up, but that idea was a little complicated, so we decided that we should push it up from under the traffic jam. We first used three long beams and then we programmed it to push the traffic jam up and it worked! We went to my teammate’s house we got pieces that are so thin that it can slide under the traffic jam to lift it. We kept coding until we found the right code that when the robot went straight the thin piece that was part of our attachment slid under the traffic jam and picked it up and keep it that way. This was a really fun challenge and we did it!