Robotics

      Today afterschool I have a robotics pizza party. We are also going to disassemble our robots. We had 2 robots, but we sacrificed our line follower to upgrade swagbot 1.0 to swagbot 2.0. Our battle bot also known as swagbot was slow and had a small back shield. When we sacrificed our line follower to swagbot, our robot's back shield became taller and wider. We also took off our gars on the tires so our robot could be faster. We were decreasing the speed, but increasing the power of the engine. The engine really didn't become more powerful, it just became slower. That is why we took off the gears from swagbot. This was one of the upgrades we made to our robot. I think we could have changed the location of the 3rd engine and made it higher. I guess these are all changes we will make to make our robot the best and so we can get a 1st place medal instead of a 3rd place medal.

      I thought that our line follower was going to win, and our battle bot was going to lose. We thought that the battle bot was going to lose because we had only one day of practice. The line follower we tested over and over, and it was successful. When we got to the competition, we saw the other robots. Corbin and I walked around and we were looking at other school's ideas. There was only one battle bot from another school which had a similar design. The other designs were to basic, and there was no way they could possibly win. I hope I am on next year's First Lego League Team.