Robotics
This year me and my partner, Arianna we were assigned a challenge for our robot. To be sent to the moon and pick up Lunar Regolith. What is Lunar Regolith? You may ask Lunar Regolith is a type Moon Soil it covers over solid rock. But taking up the form of dust, soil, sand, damaged rock, and more that results in natural weathering and biological processes. With a combination of erosion, alluvial deposits, volcanic eruption, or tectonic activity.
Lunar Regolith defines as any layering material covering rock. Moon Regolith was formed not millions but billions years of age. By constant meteorites impaction on the moons surface. Lunar Regolith extends down 4 to 5 meters but in other places 15 meters. In older highlands areas. But Regolith is be found on different types of planets including mars and asteroids .
This is Lunar Regolith
This is a sample Lunar Regolith we are assigned to collect from the moon.
This is our Robot
This is the robot we are using to collect Lunar Regolith. We named him Kevinbacon, Kevinbacon is the robots name we are expected to send it to the moon and come back with samples of Lunar Regolith.
How we came up with Kevinbacon's build
How we came up with Kevinbacon we came up with a simple sketch with a robot that had to fly 16.26 kilometers per second to get to the moon and back to earth which would take about 8 hours and 35 minutes. We came up with a build that had a shell\box shape to protect Kevinbacon. From Lunar Regolith clogging or damaging Kevinbacon's engine. Along with a box to hold the sample and stop it from flying out. on the way back to earth.
The failed and successful attempts for Kevinbacon
The first attempt to build Kevinbacon's shell\box was to 3D print it but we were only 3 meters off but we were running out of time to try again. So we used cardboard a duck tape we build a box shape. That cover the cracks of the box with perfect dimensions to fit Kevinbacon. And for the bucket we did the same thing but duck taped the whole bucket around for the Lunar Regolith to not stick to the cardboard and go into the container to store the Lunar Regolith.