Robotics

The challenge we wanted to do was based on Lunar Regolith and transporting it around the moon. For the challenge Mr. González would put the "lunar regolith" (Sand) on the ground and the goal was to program the robot to pick up the sand and transport it to another spot in the room. If this was an actual mission it would be that the robot would leave the lunar base collect the lunar regolith and then come back so scientists can study it.

I learned that regolith means natural material. So what is lunar regolith? Well, lunar regolith is moon dust, and it's all over the moon! It was fun learning about other topics about space too. Such as how they recycle water from plenty of stuff such as urine, sweat, and feces. A quote I remember reading from an astronaut at the International Space Station is "Today's coffee is tomorrow's coffee.". It's a very genius idea on how to recycle water because after all there's no water on the moon (as of now).

We originally had a robot plan that looks similar to a tank. But while building that was well not 'buildable', the original blueprint did not work out. After a few hours of failing to build a successful robot, I got some help from one of my peers. He started me off and I completed the robot. But by the time I had the robot done, it was too late to program it to do the challenge/task. But I'm still proud that I was able to have something in the end.

Here's the photo of our robot!