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Additional Pictures
Fall 2003
"Wire Guided Insanity"
Group Engineering Project for Transportation Systems TEL 353 - Dr Waite
"Robot Wars" was designed as an engineering activity for advanced transportation.
The wire was a light cable stretched across the lab, and tightened by turnbuckles.
After construction, the "track" only took about fifteen minutes to set
up. It could be done in a hallway, with 2' X 8's stretched across
doorways at the end. Lay down luan to protect the floor for at least
8' of the start line. Old couch cushions work well at the finish
line to collect the racers. Plug two 100 foot extension cords in
a power strip, and have a safety officer hit the button. The power
of 110 volts is awsome, and the extension cords just follow the machines!
Duct tape connections together. These students "invented" this activity,
having never seen it before. It is an inexpensive answer to radio
controlled robot wars-type vehicles, as the total cost is $20 or less.
Ideas can be googled searching for "Beltsander Races", but the track becomes
difficult to build, expensive, hard to set up, and impossible to store.
This is better.
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