Here is how it's looking right now. I like this look, it is cleaner, but I don't think it will last. There are some space limitations that may not allow us to use this configuration.
This is without the upper platform. You can see more of the wires and such. But to mount the grabber and the climber we will probably have to use it this way. I will still try for the other configuration, but we'll see.
This shows the underside. The line of sensors in the middle is the line-following array. With this we can follow the black line on the course. The other two are used to make the turns. Simple motors are mounted. The handy board is on the top. It the thing with the screen. All the sensors are connected to that. At this point it will follow that line and does quite well.
I have built most of the robot, I think because I have been selfish about that. We've built all the circuits and what's funny is that is more than the student electrical engineers I work with are doing. So we're coming along. I will post more pictures as the grabbing mechanism is built and mounted and when the climbing mechanism is designed and built.
Anyway, there you go.
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