Chip Distributing Robot

Built for a four week mechatronics team project, the assignment was to make a robot that would distribute small chips into see-saw style buckets to tip them toward our team's playing field. The bot could receive these chips from one end of the field, then drove itself to the buckets and dumped the chips in, and would return to receive more chips. The bot was autonomous and oriented itself using IR sensors and tape sensors. My role was to do the mechanical design, sourcing of components, CAD modeling, and assembly of the bot. Determined to use unconventional mechanical methods for distributing the chips, our final design took advantage of deploying tape springs as expanding arms to reach the buckets more quickly after passing the initial size constraint check. See more at http://versacebot.weebly.com/

Structure layers made out of laser cut duron. Driven by two 12V DC motors controlled by an Arduino. Chip dispensing mechanism made out of laser cut duron adjustable arms, connected to tape springs and a chip dumper, both deployed by servo motors, also controlled by the Arduino. Tape sensors sit on adjustable laser cut acrylic arms.