Robot Assembly — ELEGOO

It's finally assembly time! After what seems like weeks of waiting for our parts to arrive I was finally able to make a start on assembling the robot. The parts arrived with all the tools required and I was able to get building right away.

First, I opened the package to ensure I had all the parts needed. I organized them into screws, electrical components, and structural components. I then read the assembly instructions and familiarised myself with the process.

I then started assembling the base components, this blue base plate is the main plate, to which everything is attached. The foundations of the robot.

The motors and wheels then followed. These are attached with screws through predrilled holes and hold the robot together.

The Arduino board is the next step of the assembly. This PCB is the brain of the robot and is what is used for carrying out any task with the robot. The motors, sensors, and battery are all connected to the indicated ports and attached to the base of the robot securely using brass struts.

Once the Upper plate and battery are attached to the robot, the last step is to attach the roof plate. This completes the assembly process for elegoo. The final step was to turn it on and see what happens. The robot is pre-programmed with self-balancing instructions. So when power is sent to the board, the robot immediately sits upright and begins balancing. There is also an app that can be used to control elegoo in real-time with forward, backward, left, and right controls.

The next step of the project will be assembling the obstacle course, and programming elegoo to navigate it. This combined with the ping pong launcher at the end will result in elegoo navigating the course, catching a ping pong ball (or two), and returning to the starting position. The designs for the Ping pong launcher will be outlined and discussed in the next blog post. Until then!!!!