It's two months to the submission deadline, and we've just successfully recorded our first video.
The "Feed The Fish" challenge involves launching projectiles (representing fish food) into a 20x20cm box, 40cm off the ground (representing the fish bowl).
To accomplish this, we built a "semi-automatic fish food catapult". One motor flips a bat which smacks a ping pong ball that's been lined up in the correct position. Another motor pushes the next ping pong ball into place.
We had a few problems getting things to line up (see Cormac's post), but once we worked out all the little issues, we achieved a perfect score of 15 in just over 60 seconds!
That's one challenge in the bag!
(Once we post our final video to Youtube, we'll link this post to it. But for now here's a photo of our hungry fish getting a mouthful of whoop-ass)
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