Practical Attachments

Nicholas M. - Green Machine Programmer - 7th grade

 

Today in robotics, while it was pouring outside, three pairs of programming teams from The Green Machine were still building their robots.  Gabe Schneider and I were tweaking a program that uses a very practical attachment. The attachment flips up and down so when we don't need to use it, we flip it up. When we need to use it on a mission, we lower it before activating the mission. This helps save critical seconds of time when the robot is in base; when the robot comes back from the mission, we can either flip it up or down depending on the objective of the next mission.

The picture to the left is showing the attachment down. The picture to the left, shows the attachment flipped up so it won't interfere with the mission that doesn't need that certain part of the robot. The cords are cleverly tucked in so they also won't interfere.