Robot! :)

If you have talked to me recently, you probably know that i've been really busy with my ROBOT! Yes!! Robot.. We're building a robot for our class from SCRATCH! from aluminum sheet, aluminum bars, plastics and stuff we just make everything, design it, and build it! :)

The competition was yesterday(sunday) and it lasted from 230 pm to 630pm. It's a triple eliminations means that each team have got to lose 3 times in order to be eliminated. There 're around 14 teams competing.

The rules: There are 3 balls placed on the divider ; a bowling ball and 2 billiard balls. At the end of 90 seconds, the team with most balls on their side, loses. Also, the plane of the divider extends infinity. :)

A few look at our machine:
"The Scorpion" with it's extendable arm..

"The Scorpion"

Bad A** machine

Our team, the judge, Kevin Moore and our professor, Dr Delahoussaye

The 2 finalist team..

Okay! So this is how it went:

I'm the controller throughout the competition, and as the pictures shows, we got to the final. We won 5 matches against 4 machines in a row which made us the winner of all. (undefeated yet) Then we rested for 2 hours while other machines fight among themselve and another 2 machinese emerged among them. Both the machines have lost twice (one of them beaten by us twice).

We're pretty much the top 3 by now. So we went head on with the other team (not the one we beaten twice) and we won!! So they 're eliminated. Once again, we're up against the same machine we've beaten twice. We only have to beat them one more time to get the championship while they got to beat us 3 times IN A ROW. We lost all 3 in the row!!! Can you believe it? I almost could not trust what i see.. Was so disappointed but thought we did pretty good given that we're only hoping to get past the first round. :P We're then invited to OSU Tulsa to compete with their machine on thursday. Will see how that goes...

After that was exhausted but was asked to go to Cortney's house for dinner. Ended up with karaoke until 1230 pm on a Sunday, the day before my Thermodynamics II Midterm 2!!! But well, managed to study just enough for the test and guess i did pretty well on it. So no worriies mom and dad! :)

I'm glad i am finally out of the lab working on our machine. However, lots of tests, homeworks and another project (analyzing OSU Power Plant) coming up! :( Pray for strength in me thru my "daddy" from heaven.

p/s check out videos of all the matches on facebook! :)