Our robot now has remote control capability. Unfortunately I can't show a video of it with the wheels on but I can without (forgot to record).
Our bid for more money from the school has been successful, I believe we can now be safely considered the official MCS team for Piwars 2024.
We also now have a front attachment holder (dovetail slot) to hold IR sensors, cameras etc.
The base-board is still a plywood laser-cut abomination, but, this is the
Code and basic breadboard testing for the IR sensors for Lava Palava have been done, testing will happen this week as well.
first iteration, and we can worry about how it looks later. We are thinking of a fire truck (in light of the disaster theme) but it itself is also on fire (even more disaster themed.
Over Christmas break we will be working on computer vision for the autonomous tasks, building test mazes etc. I'll hope to get back within the next week about CV progress (haven't had time before)
For Zombie Apocalypse, we have a gun, and we have a basic mechanism: a solenoid attached to the side of the gun will pull an attached nail or some horizontal thing to pull the trigger, timed by some Python code. I don't have pictures unfortunately, but we are working on code for that as well.
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