Here is a fully assembled side view of Team Raptors lunabotic robot. The design of our mining robot calls for it to navigate to separate mining and dumping locations, operated wirelessly via an intranet connection.
Here you can see the bare chassis. This is the backbone of the robot. The chassis or frame is what everything will be bolted to and will need to provide the support for team Raptor's robot.
Here the drive motors and wheels are mounted to the chassis.
This shows the chassis later on in the build. The laptop is mounted temporarily for a road test.
The "A-frame" will be bolted to the chassis and provides the pivot support for the arms.
Kaylein was the engineer in charge of our Carbon-Fiber bucket. We were fortunate enough to have a sponsor like Cirrus Aircraft to donate the materials and the time to set up and bake it. Thank you Cirrus.
Due to the competition constraints, the wheels cannot be be pneumatic. Therefore we designed our own wheels that show our North Dakota pride!
The building phase was exciting. After 3-4 months of designing and building individual components, we finally are going to get to see the results.
Assembling the robot late one night before an outreach event. All hands were on deck and anxiously waiting to see if it works!
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