Paul G. David C. Chris R. Mateo G. Bot The Builder Documentation Robot Description: Our robot construction set consisted of a crane, a conveyor belt, and a dump truck. It had a sequence of picking up a stick with the crane, placing it on the conveyor belt, and using the conveyor belt to […]
David C., Paul, Chris R., Mateo – Construction Set Robot (Team Jeff)
David Carratu Paul Gelhaus Chris Reik Mateo Guaman Team Jeff – Construction Set Robot Documentation Robot Description: The robot is a construction set that consists of a crane, a conveyor belt and a dump truck. The dump truck has wheels mounted to the brick with a motor to operate a cardboard dump bed. The motor […]
Jumbo Hunt
David Carratu Paul Gelhaus Jumbo Hunt Video Game Documentation For this project we created a “top-down” style video game. The objective of the video game is to move the character around the background, a satellite image of the Tufts campus, to find Jumbo. For the background, we took a screenshot of a google […]
David C., Paul, Chris R., Mateo Gap Crossing Robot
Paul Gelhaus David Carratu Chris Reik Mateo Gauman Gap Crossing Robot Documentation When we were first given the task of creating a table-gap crossing robot, we first brainstormed as a team several possible solutions to this challenge. After thinking about several robot designs we decided that the best design would be to create a […]
Halloween Robot
David Carratu Paul Gelhaus Mateo Guaman Chris Reik Halloween Robot Documentation For this Halloween Project our group decided to create a robot exhibit where the kids come up to our table and press a button to start the action of the robots. First a robot comes out from under the table and swings […]
David and Paul’s Geoff the Magician
David Carratu Paul Gelhaus Geoff the Magician Our robot Geoff the Magician performs a disappearing ball magic trick. You place the metal ball in front of the robot and Geoff will make the ball disappear with its magic cup. Geoff lowers its arm, spins the cup for five seconds, and raises it, and the […]
David and Paul’s Astronaut Power Tool
Paul Gelhaus David Carratu Astronaut Tools: Astro Tool Documentation For this project we were assigned to remove a nut from a bolt and reinsert the nut onto a different bolt with a device we created with Lego Mindstorms. The device had to be something that astronauts could use, so there were […]
David and Paul Ultrasonic Sensor Investigation
David Carratu Paul Gelhaus Ultrasonic Sensor Investigation For this investigation of the EV3 Sensors we decided to experiment with the Ultrasonic sensor since we believed that it is easily applicable to autonomous navigation. We wanted to test the tolerances and limitations of this sensor to better understand how the ultrasonic sensor works and in […]
David Carratu
Hi I’m David. I am 18 years old and from southwestern Connecticut. I am either majoring in Biomedical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering. I have no idea which yet and plan to figure that out this year. I look forward to taking this class to learn more about Robotics! Fun Fact: my favorite food is my […]
Geoff the RoboDog
David Carratu Paul Gelhaus Project Description For this project we wanted to created a robot of an animal that we were both familiar with the movements so that we could accurately recreate them in our robot. Therefore, both us having pet dogs back home, we decided on creating a robotic dog named RoboDog. For […]