Entries by Mark Huffman

S’18 Project and Mission Objectives

Design and fabricate a remote controlled, competitively priced, toy robot that is capable of memorizing and traversing a path. The child “teaches” his/her robot by guiding it through a maze. Once the child and robot team solve the maze. The child returns the robot to the entrance of the maze and quizzes the robot to […]

Goliath Fall 2017 – Final Blog Post

The goal of this project was to improve on 302 Goliath tank design from the Fall 2016 Class and adapt to a completely different mission goal. The mission was to navigate a 2D paper/cloth maze under remote control and then have the Goliath repeat the route autonomously. For an added challenge an extra version was added that where all bots […]

Goliath Fall 2017 – Final Budget and Expenses

This post is in accordance with the project requirement L1.11, “Budget”. In comparison to both the total expected cost and actual cost column, we could see which resources were supplied, cut, or purchased.A good portion of the components was covered through the use of previous semesters’ components specifically the: motor, 3dot board, and battery. The […]

Goliath Fall 2017 – LED Grid Display

Based on our L1 requirements to have a LED display and the L2 sub-requirements to indicate the next turn direction, having an LED grid display was a stretch goal. After some (what turned out to be pretty simple work) the LED proves very useful in indicating to the user the intended direction when user input is […]