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For this project I focused on many skills for myself to improve upon. First, I decided to focus on our group collaboration because we were struggling to agree on our purpose and final goals. Next would be digital and physical fabrication where I learned a lot from my partners and other sources. From this I really improved my focus and process of designing around my goals and tools / materials I had access to. Lastly would be engage and persist which was very key in our project due to the many aspects that had to all work fluidly together.

Fish bot is a combat, wedge, lifter robot. In combat robotics (specifically NHRL) you take 2 team's robots and put them in a box to fight. You win either by entirely destroying the other robot in under 3 minutes or it goes to a judge's decision where they compare control, aggression, and damage. Fish bot focuses on control and aggression where the robot's wedge-like shape is designed to get under the body of another robot and be able to pin them against wall or something else, i.e. control. As far as aggression fish bot is designed to have a fast powerful drive style with a lifter / flipper mechanism designed to disorient the opponent. Fish bot is made to with hold many impacts as it has 2 large steel plates, one on the top of the wedge and one on the bottom. To control fish bot there is a ELRS radio transmitter talking to a receiver remotely which then talks to an ESC controlling motors to drive the robot. The receiver is also controlling an Arduino micro controller, telling the Arduino to activate the lifter where the Arduino will fulfill pre-written steps to control and calibrate the lifter. Overall fish bot is a fun small 3 lb. combat robot that is meant for personal exploration, iteration and for the entertainment, enrichment and inspiration of others.

engage and persist