• Question: What was. The first robot you desighned

    Asked by stannes52 to Sarah, Conor on 10 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Conor McGinn

      Conor McGinn answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Hey. The first robot I built was a kit robot. I bought a book that recommended this particular kit. It was a simple hexapod robot that trundled around – it wasnt very interesting.
      The first robot I designed by myself was a sumo robot. It was designed to play robot-sumo, basically sumo wrestling for robots. Looking back, I didn’t really have any idea what I was doing! It was fun and I was learning so much that I didn’t really care how good it was. In the end if failed pretty spectacularly. Like I’ve said a bunch of times in this forum, there’s no shame in trying something and it not working out.

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  • Photo: Jeffrey

    Jeffrey commented on :

    The first robot I ever made was a line following one. It’s how I met Conor for the first time at the Robot Challenge in Vienna. It was so bad. It was crazy slow. It ended up coming 52 place. 🙁