Robo Sports

I was at Science Centre for a robotic workshop.

In the class, we were put into groups of three. I was with my brother and my friend Jabez. Each group had a robot to work with. We attached an arm to our robot. It was used for dropping balls into a hole.

On our robot was a sensor that helps it see the track that it was going to go on. There was a light at the end of this track. When our robot started to move, it went quite well.

We made three different types of robots. The first one wasn't so interesting. It had a chain in front of it. We put two balls in our robot and let it go. When it reached the end of the track, it dropped its ball and stopped because it sensed the light.

The second type of arm was a bit more interesting. It looked liked a bulldozer's shovel that was used to hold and drop a ball. It went off on the track and when it reached the end, it dropped the ball like before and stopped.

I enjoyed the robot with the third arm the most. It could shoot the balls out instead of dropping it. When our robot reached the end of the track, it shot three balls one by one and stopped.

After we finished all three robots the instructor gave us three bookmarks for finishing all three tasks. On one side of the bookmark there was a question. On the other side was the answer to the question.

We had just one last task. It was to make our robot shoot seven balls at a time by joining all three arms together. When our robot moved along the track, it reached the end and almost finished the task. But when it was time for our last ball to shoot, it shot too far that it didn't aim the goal!

After we had done all the packing up, the teacher gave us a badge as a reward although our last ball didn't aim.

I like this day so much that I'll never forget it!