Chapter 2 Gears

Gears have many roles and purposes. Gears is what makes your robot go faster, makes your robot have a lot of power and can also make your robot go slow depending on the gears. There are two words you need to know one is the driven gear which is the gear attached to the wheel, driving gear is the gear attached to the motors. Finding the gear ratio you must first divide the number of teeth on the driven gear by the number of teeth on the driving gear. If it turns out that the gear ratio is below 1 that means your robot will move fast with less power. If somehow you want to increase the speed and power you can create the gear train which multiplies the ratio for gear 1 and the ratio for the second gear. Bevel gears are helpful in changing the direction of the force this is excellent if you don't have room for the wheel. Pulleys can be used to lift an object and have the same characteristic as gears.

"Circuit Race"

The "Circuit Race" was a great experienced because its where we tested our knowledge on past activities. The task was not easy and made you think outside of the box. We had to learn some pieces of information that would help before starting the program. In this activity turns and tires were critical, so we had to do some modification to our current task bot in order to make good and sharp turns and move forward. We thought that life would be easy, but instead it got worst we had trouble with the wheels which tends to stray of course also had trouble with the turn. Overall it was a very competitive experienced.

These images show the program I used for "Circuit Race" and the images on our modified task bot be careful we used smallest wheel and this picture of the robot was before the challenge.