The Saga of Kirbotty McFinioFace
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The final competition of my Mechatronics class had a simple goal: bring all the wooden cubes to our side of the board.
My team of three—Set Enable Interrupt—created a bright pink robot plastered with memes. Dubbed Kirbotty McFinioFace after professors Brian Kirby and Ben Finio, the robot featured a pair of sweeping arms and a suite of sensors to navigate the board. Despite the shenanigans, our neat breadboards and reliable mechanism brought us just shy of first place.

I wired the upper breadboard to look like a cat. Yes, it's electrically functional!

The lower breadboard housed the H bridges to control the drive wheels.

Kirbotty in the match-ready configuration.

The arms were designed to deploy forward by gravity when the robot stopped sudeenly.
