Post Competition

This week I learned that you should always take the time to carefully read the rules before competing in a competition. Unfortunately, I learned this lesson a little late, like most lessons learned in life. Luckily, this lesson did not prevent us from competing in the competition, but we did have to frantically scramble to modify my robot so that it was eligible to compete. To give you an idea of the extent of modifications that had to be made, here is a before and after picture of my robot.

                Before                                                                                                             After

   

It's almost a completely new robot. Luckily we were able to make this modification thanks to another member of the robotics club who let me use the track system, which you can see on the robot in the picture to the left, that he developed for his robot that wasn't functioning at the time of the competition. Despite frantically trying to make quick modifications to our robots between rounds, and my robot being the janky mess that it was, and being eliminated during the first round of the preliminary matches, the competition was a lot of fun and a great learning experience.

We have already begun to come up with new ideas to implicate into our robots in order to make them more formidable for our next competition in January. We are better off now for future competitions now that we are armed with knowledge and new ideas.

Here is a picture of the playing field that our robots compete on.