Mechatronics Competition (Mechanical Engineering Junior Year 2010)

The King Kong Mechatronics Competition was a year long project for all juniors in mechanical engineering at the U of U. The goal of the competition was to build an autonomous robot that could follow a line, read sensors, pick up a doll, avoid the other robots and climb 3 feet up a building. It was a ton of fun and I had some of the greatest people on my team. We were the first team to have a working prototype that could complete the course. This was the class that really taught me the art (or science) of problem solving and troubleshooting.

We adapted a poster from the recent King Kong movie with our robot in it.

This is a clip or our robot in action.