Pole Adaptive Design

Pole Adaptive Design

When we first design our machine to do the strategy of getting the red and black balls on top of the tower, we found out that the tower had some kind of flap extension which will cause problems when we are trying to get the black ball. The upper arm will hit the flap, which makes the machine not able to reach the black ball.

Therefore, we came up with an idea of using a spring steel and a magnet which enables the upper arm to deflect when it hits the flap, and then turn it back to the original condition.

We also intentionally made the lower arm tilted at an angle to make sure that the black ball falls to the designated slope area. It also turns out that making it at an angle will help the lower arm to reach the black ball easier.

This is the physical image of the arm after manufacturing process.