Lego Robots

Lab: Lego robots: linear & Conditional Programming

Today my group (Alice, Em, and I) tried to program robots to do different challenges on Mars. We were trying to push a rock lego onto a ramp. We tried different lengths of time and speed. It was hard. We got the rock to get on the rap but it got pushed off because we had the time set for too long. We never got it quite right but we were pretty close! It was fun and challenging.

Through this experimenting with robots, I realized that it does take many small steps to get robots to do interesting and complex things. When i realized this, I thought of each step I wanted the robot to do to get to the complex movements. This made it much easier to do and think about. It helps to break it down.

This made me wonder how long and how many times it took for people to build complex robots and get everything just right! I would like to try again to shorten the time and speed on my robot because we were so close! I think that we use robots in Mission to Mars... maybe that's how it's related.