Robotics w/ Ms Chowfin

In robotics we've been learning about mars and how we can build a robot to explore mars, here's a bit I've learnt about mars and how the lander needs to be designed:

"Mars can be called the red planet, because of the rusty iron in the ground that makes it look red, Mars has a rocky terrain so the lander will need big wheels so it doesn't get stuck on rocky mountains or even flat terrain with a hot surface so the lander will need to be made out of something that doesn't melt or burn.

Mars affects our design because of the rocky terrain, we need it to be bottom heavy so it doesn’t flip over by the extreme rocky terrain the the extreme weather conditions up on mars, it also would need to be bigger than the rocks so it doesn’t topple over and if it flips over we need to have a recovery system to flip up the robot again

Our robot also has camera, censors and a claw. The camera for taking photos on mars the censor for detecting moving things and the claw for collecting rare and valuable rocks and minerals"

Our design process - Firstly we learnt how to control and experiment with each of the three robots we used (Spero, Ozobot and Edison) The Spero wasn’t the easiest for me to drive but it was okay, Edison is okay because it was hard to use I didn't understand I just liked building lego on top of it and Ozobot was the easiest to use because I just had to draw lines and turn it on.

We used the Edison for our main lander to go to mars, we built lego on top of it to match our prototype.