Maze Robot attracted many visitors to exhibition booth at Makerfair Beijing 2017

My Maaaaaze Robot displayed on Makerfaire Beijing 2017 and attracted many visitors to my exhibition booth!

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

7:20 PM

[2017-10-11]

[Background]: For completing the task for this mazerobot competition, we were required to design and build an Arduino-based robot which can went through the 600mm*800mm area which was actually a combination of 200mm wide roads. This wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't that stu-pid-material limitation. All the material we could get besides laser cut ply-wood and 3D printed PLA was An Arduino which was soldered by ourselves and only ONE ultrasound sensor and two continuous servos.

Before I started drawing the CADs and printing them, I did have watched several mazebot videos online for inspiration. The thing that made me mad was that all the people who accomplished the task was using at least two(or more)ultrasound sensors. During the discussion process, we have been thinking tons of impressive ideas which may pass the test. The plans Included using an imaginary-third-continuous servo(and which created the new term "ITC servo")to make the ultrasound sensor rotates, so that we can get enough information about the surrounding environment. The conclusion of the mind storming is that because of the lack of information I can get from the sensor, I would have to add some guiding wheels that keep the track of the robot correct.