Mechanical

We have used pictures to document our mechanical design.  You should also check our scoring page to see how this design works, and the coding page to see our program.

We use the following ports on the Handyboard.  We used the RCX as a counter weight.

Motor 0 --
Motor 2 --
Motor 3 --
Analog 6 --
Servo 0 --
Servo 2 --
Sonar 0,7 --

The full view of the left side.  The front of the bot is to the left.  We made many changes over the development period.	Here is what the bot looked like earlier.
This is the ball and tube grabber.  This works great.  You drop it on the balls in the nest and it grabs all of them.  It also works with tubes; drop it on a tube and it fits snugly inside it.	Here is a close up of the grabber.
Here are the motors for the treads