This is the third week of our robotic project, and we are almost done with building the robot. Everything goes ok so far.
We have our picaxe chip board with two motor chips; we have finished making the two motors, the battery pack (with 3 batteries, 1.5 volt for each one, 4.5V total) and the sensor(link with a 9V battery). After connecting the motor, sensor and the battery to the board, the sensor will allow the picaxe chip to send our program source code into the motor chip and makes the motor run as we program. Next thing we need to do is to fix and improve the program source code of the picaxe so that the robot would move as we expected.
Now we are trying to build the body of the robot: we have the a piece of wood plate, and we want to cut it in a suitable shape that can fix the robot. We must make sure it will be able to contain the board, motor and battery pack so that the whole system will work effectively. Also, we're thinking about what shape we should make, in order to make the body more solid and hard to be crushed, or what shape will make the robot lighter and move faster. All of these are the question we need to concern about right now.