Blog 1

Blog 1

A quick update - if all goes to plan, most of the major parts for my chassis will arrive in a week's time. I am exploring the idea of making a tank based robot, however, I will do some tests and make many prototypes to see what type of robot better suits the challenges this year. While waiting for the various parts to arrive, I am going to start on the coding! I will probably be uploading all my work to GitHub and I will post a link to that as soon as possible. Right now I think that the challenge that requires the most thought is going to be 'The Zombie Apocalypse' .  The challenge is described as the following on the Pi Wars website:

• "Shoot all the zombies in the Tower and save the inhabitants. The targets will be at a number of different levels and you must use projectiles as your “anti-zombie device” to knock them over."

My first idea for this challenge was to develop a mechanism using a push and pull solenoid, as well as neodymium magnets and ball bearings. I got inspired to try this idea via this video below:

Anyway, that is all I can really say for now, but hopefully, while I am waiting for all the parts to arrive, I can start to gather more ideas.